---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment At 01:28 AM 03/09/2002 -0500, I wrote: >Hi Zen- >So what did you do? > >David Skolnik I asked because I thought your question had raised some interesting procedural issues that only became clearer in your second posting. >At 12:34 PM 02/13/2002 -0500, you (Zen) wrote: >>Hear the notes change pitch while the tuning pins twist! >> >>Hear the technician shout endless streams of obscenities! >> >>(And it's all happening at a church near you!) >> >>Hi Everyone -- >> >>Yesterday was one of those days. I was called in by a church to try to >>tune a piano that was notorious for not staying in tune. What I found >>was all of the tuning pins standing so high in the pinblock that the >>bottoms of the coils were 10mm from the surface of the plate. You read >>right -- 10mm, or 3/10 of an inch. (Yes, I shot pictures of this, but I >>still have to get the film developed. No, I didn't swear out loud, but >>it wouldn't surprise me if others before me had.) >> >>Pin torque was all over the map. Some pins turned smoothly and didn't >>pose serious problems in being set. Others were murderously tight. Only >>one was bordering on loose. What I'm wondering is, will pounding these >>pins to a proper height help bring about some sort of uniformity of >>torque or will it make the tight ones tighter still? >> >>Concerning the tight pins -- does anyone know of any cute tricks for >>slightly easing that tightness? I'm going to work on getting >>authorization to do the pin-pounding job, and I'd like to be able to >>leave some semblence of consistency of pin torque when I'm done. >> >>Any insights would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. >>Z! Reinhardt RPT >>Ann Arbor MI >><mailto:diskladame@provide.net>diskladame@provide.net Later you (Zen) wrote: >It was a Boston UP118 studio, maybe 5 years old. I have a feeling that >this is one of those cases that the dealer doesn't want to cover the cost >of the pin-levelling because it has been so long since it was delivered >... and the manufacturer probably feels that such a procedure is part of >the dealer prep process ... and the church doesn't feel they should have >to pay for such a job on such a young piano. >I have no idea who the technician(s) had been before me. I got called in >on the recommendation of a member of the congregation. > >Z! Reinhardt RPT >Ann Arbor MI ><mailto:diskladame@provide.net>diskladame@provide.net Eventually I wrote: >Zenster- > >You've always struck me as fairly reasonable. The scenario you are >describing is a nightmare waiting not to happen. There is no way in (mood >watch) that you should be projecting yourself into this situation. Let >everyone go hire lawyers. Besides, even if you were able to fix the >torque, these pianos are difficult to tune, due, in part, to what seems to >be very low friction at the pressure bar. Go find something truly >constructive to do with that hammering urge. > >Hmm! sounds a little like Newton. Don't you think? > >David Skolnik and Wim Blees wrote: > Before proceeding I would definitely get back to the dealer on this one, > and get him, or the manufacturer, to pay for the repair. I have a > feeling, though, that the dealer will probably want to send his own tech > to do the work, or even have the piano brought back to the store to be > repaired. David Neerson and (the real) Newton may not have seen or remembered the above. The only one who should reasonably be responding to this query is...THE ZEN! Maybe I should have posted her privately. ? David Skolnik ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/3a/49/1e/1b/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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