This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Old upright. Several technicians had already refused to work on the = piano. "We called several piano tuners and they wouldn't even come out." = Someone gave it to new owners. Less than stellar piano. Tried in vain to = get owners to toss it out. A dozen or more tuning pins that were so = loose that the pitch dropped several steps when you removed tuning lever = from pin. Remainder of pins were marginal. No plate bushings. Plate was = stained (like with paint remover) around all tuning pins and the few = pins that had any torque were very mushy feeling - some type of tuning = pin tightener chemical treatment had apparently been used in the past. I warned the owners that CA sometimes works well and sometimes has no = beneficial effect. I expressed concerns on how the past application of = pin dope might affect the effectiveness of the CA application. This past Tuesday laid piano back on tilter. Wiggled and marked worst = tuning pins. Applied one bottle of Hot Stuff thin CA to all tuning pins = with extra application to worst pins. Came back last night (Thursday) = and pitch raised and tuned the old beastie. Maybe a dozen pins had = around 80 to 100 inch-pounds of torque. The remainder had up to 200 = inch-pounds of torque. Several were arm killers! Lady who hadn't played in 15 years after taking 12 years of lessons as a = child was thrilled as she sat down and ripped into some Chopin - with = the keys clickety-clackity with lost motion, jacks clicking with missing = butt felts, hammers double striking, soundboard/ribs cracks buzzing. = :-( Oh well. She appeared quite oblivious to all the noise - = appeared to have the ability to filter everything out but the music as = she grinned ear-to-ear. I hope she has a durable noise filter! I told her to play the piano for a while and if she was going to keep = and play it there were a "few" (thousand) things we could do to improve = the old piano. Just thought I would share. Amazing results! :-) Terry Farrell ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/d2/46/39/37/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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