"The Sound" is one you don't forget. The funniest one I heard about was a small grand piano that a local (no longer in business) dealer bought cheap. It had a break in one of the long struts. He cleaned it up, refinished the plate including bondoing the broken spot. He sold it to a local rock band for use in a restaurant. It was 200-cents flat and needed to be at 440. A friend of mine went to the restaurant to tune it not knowing about the broken plate with the bondo repair. The piano survived the pitch raise and tuning but just as he was packing up his tools.......... He wasn't sure he'd ever be the same! dave __________________________________________ David M. Porritt, RPT Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 dporritt@mail.smu.edu ----- Original message ----------------------------------------> From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman@cox.net> To: <dporritt@mail.smu.edu>, Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org> Received: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:50:30 -0600 Subject: Re: A-440 and Ethics. >>Yes, once. It was a Kohler & Campbell console. The plate was obviously >>put in the frame crooked and under tremendous tension. You can make a >>plate fit the frame with a strong enough power tool. It was clearly >>defective. You do remember those, however! >> >>dave >I do (shudder) remember those. Haven't seen one in forever. I wonder why. >Maybe the plates eventually broke in all of them??? >I've seen a few broken plates, and declined to do the pitch raise and >tunings requested without repairs, but I haven't yet had one break while I >was working on it. Kent Swafford, as I recall, heard THE NOISE of a plate >suicide firsthand a half dozen years back, through no fault of his own. He >even posted the story to the list. >Ron N
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