I am curious about others opinions on the long term future of the piano business. Piano dealers are going under right and left. Used pianos are at historic lows and even then do not sell. There will always be tuning and rebuilding business since there are still millions of pianos out there. But do you feel about the long term growth of our field. --- "Those of us who dance appear insane to those who can't hear the music." George Carlin "I am prepared to meet my maker. Whether my makeris prepare for the great ordeal of meeting me, is another matter." Winston Churchhill. On Sun, 09 Feb 2003 18:35:19 Greg Newell wrote: > >Del, > Now that I know you are on a dial up modem connection I hesitate >to ask for any more of an effort for you. I guess I've become very spoiled >indeed with my DSL. I leave it up to you. > What I'm interested in is the mounting of the soundboard and the >configuration of the board itself. I'm curious about placement of the ribs >when you get down that far and the bridge with those monster buttons you >spoke of and the spacers? did you call them between the bridge and the >board. Both long and short bridges are a curiosity to me. The overall >structure of the belly looked rather interesting in that segmented shot. Is >this a customers piano or one you bought for your own efforts? What is it >worth in it's present state? Is the bass bridge 3 pieces or one? Are any of >the bridges laminated or solid? What is the grain configuration? Did they >hold up or are they shot? The board mounting is of interest to me as I was >thinking lately of some free floating board design myself. This is the >first I've ever heard that, once again, there's nothing new under the sun. >Drats! > Virtually anything and everything your willing to send along I am >interested in but I really hate to bother you with it. All of this is a >curiosity to me. I may have a chance at picking up or working on a rather >unusual Chickering I encountered at a golf resort. I tried to explain that >they may have a diamond in the rough and that they should consider dumping >excessive wads of cash into it's reconstruction but I think I may have >scared them off. I'll let it stew for a while and then offer to buy it I >think. > How functional is the action you described? Will this bring out >the true capabilities of this instrument once it receives your full care in >reconstruction? Are you contemplating and changes there or will you stick >with what's there? How will you get parts? > Well, I've taken enough of your time. Great to see that after a >considerable amount of time in this business that one can still be >titillated by new discoveries! Perhaps this can make a good journal article >someday! It would really be great to read and see a complete story of how >it was found with a description of the condition wherein it arrived at your >door and the subsequent efforts and discoveries along the way. Thanks again >for sharing! > >Greg > > >At 06:01 PM 2/9/2003, you wrote: > >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: <mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net>Greg Newell >>To: <mailto:pianotech@ptg.org>Pianotech >>Sent: February 09, 2003 11:56 AM >>Subject: Re: The Mother of all Bellyrails >> >> >>Del, >> Might you have a higher resolution photo of this that you could >> send off list? I'm having trouble seeing some of the details. >> >>Greg Newell >> >> >>Several. Of what, specifically. I'm on a modem and I don't want to take >>all day sending out stuff you are not interested in. >> >>Del >> >>--- >> >>Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >>Version: 6.0.449 / Virus Database: 251 - Release Date: 1/27/2003 > >Greg Newell >mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net > _____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB, POP3, Spam Filtering with LYCOS MAIL PLUS for $19.95/year. http://login.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus&ref=lmtplus
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