Absolutely tongue in cheek. Thanks for your observations and opinion. Carl Clyde Hollinger wrote: > Carl, > > Is your reference to "wonderful instrument" tongue in cheek? :-) My > impression is that most techs wouldn't refer to *any* square grand as a > wonderful instrument. They're pretty, though. > > I can't make any further observations about square grands, since I never > worked on one and never intend to. As far as the CA treatment goes, my > results with it have been so-so. It usually seems to do some good, but not > always, and sometimes not very much. But I might be too cautious in how > much I use, because I don't want to overdo it. I used a whole bottle on an > old upright once, and they got way too tight. But I talked with another guy > who used two bottles (2 oz.) on a piano before he noticed any improvement. > > Did you try tapping the pins a little deeper, if there's enough room on the > pins below the coils to do that? Be sure to brace the pinblock, of course. > I suggest that because I did that once on a 1974 Kawai grand. I tried > tapping a few of the loose pins, just enough to see some movement downwards, > and they felt like a new piano! So I did them all. But your piano has a > much worse case of loose pins than this one did. > > Regards, > Clyde > > Carl Teplitski wrote: > > > Today I went to see if I could improve this wonderful instrument. > > Customer said that the pins were OK because the piano has been > > kept up alright. This 24 year old fellow, very bright, works in the film > > > > industry locally, bought this piano for $1200.00 . Well , the pins were > > so > > loose I thought I might be able to turn with my fingers. Absolutely > > brutal > > piano. Tried to tune a little, but a little was all you could do. Spoke > > to > > an RPT friend locally, and I suggested that this might be a good > > candidate > > for a CA treatment. He thought I should stear clear of it altogether. > > Probably > > good advice. The dampers were very ineffective. Wondered if a V type > > damper > > would work somewhat better ?? Curious as to what the list members > > think. > > > > Carl / Winnipeg > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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