Lester spinet-wound tri

[pianolover 88]

I'll be tuning it this Tues., after returning the action, which I had to 
take to the shop; Nearly EVERY moving part was so "frozen", and to make 
matters worse, the old dreaded plastic flange-on hammers, wipps, 
dampers...luckily, they are in a pretty well preserved state. Most likely 
because no heater bar was ever used as in many old spinets. For the tight 
bushings I used water/alcohol, then after 24 hrs. to dry thoroughly, lubed 
with nap/silicone. Did the trick very well.



Terry Peterson




----Original Message Follows----
From: Piannaman@aol.com
Reply-To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
To: pianotech@ptg.org
Subject: Re: Lester spinet-wound tri
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 21:39:54 EDT

In a message dated 6/29/03 2:44:01 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
pianolover88@hotmail.com writes:


 > First time I've ever seen wound TRI-chords on a little spinet! starts at 
C3
 > up to G3, if I remember right.  Seen 'em on Grands, but never on a 
spinet,
 > esp. a Lester, circa 1946. Is this kinda rare?

Aren't they fun to "tune?"

They are the only strings of this genre that I ever recall seeing on a
spin-it piano.  I don't know that I've ever seen any on an upright, either.

Dave  Stahl

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