Painted String Rendering

[Farrell]

Oh, absolutely Clyde. We are going to make another appointment in the next
few weeks and I told her I will give her proposals for three levels of
rebuilding tasks:

1. Strings, dampers, pinblock, recondition bridge, new top half of action
(hammers, shanks, knuckles, flanges), refurbish rest of action, etc. (all
the aforementioned only if the other remaining things are in acceptable
condition)

2. Complete rebuild to like-new status (or there abouts - pick and choose -
her finish is in good shape, she may not want to refinish - this may or may
not include new soundboard).

3. Performance remanufacture to better than new status.

My guess is that I am going to find the soundboard in decent shape and she
will go for something akin to #1.

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message -----
From: "Clyde Hollinger" <cedel@supernet.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: Painted String Rendering


> Terry,
>
> I don't doubt that a restringing is in order, but I'm wondering if you are
> considering doing more.  Now would seem to be the appropriate time to at
least
> recondition the rest of the piano and maybe even do a complete rebuild.
And
> shouldn't the pinblock be replaced or plugged if the piano's getting
restrung?
> If it really needs everything for a discriminating client, it seems to me
that
> going halfway isn't advisable.
>
> Regards,
> Clyde.
>
> Tom wrote:
>
> > > Am I the only one who finds the concept that just because a piano is
> > > difficult to tune, this is reason enough to encourage the owner of the
> > piano
> > > to pay hundreds of dollars to restring it?
>
> Terry F. wrote:
>
> > No, you are not the only one, and that is not the only reason this
person
> > might want to consider restringing. This lady is a teacher. She has many
> > students and teaching piano is her sole income (or there abouts - its
what
> > she does for a living - she is single). She plays Rachmananof (sp?) VERY
> > well (at least it sounds good to me). She complained about a few notes
that
> > were way out that bothered her. All her bass tuning pins are loose - on
the
> > verge of not holding a tune. Several tenor pins are loose. I have CAed
some
> > of them in the past. Any hey, this piano is 60 years old and the strings
are
> > rusty and she has an appreciation of the performance piano! She
complains
> > about her una-corda not working right (she needs her hammers filed), and
her
> > action is less than satisfactory. Clearly this woman is looking for
better
> > performance. I think in this case talking about restringing is very much
> > on-target and is a service to her.
>