Aural tuning- 300 cents flat

[Cy Shuster]

Alan,

Is that the action that has an extra horizontal linkage between the key and 
hammer flange, to reach back to the hammer?  I saw one of those for the 
first time recently.  Didn't feel as weird to play as it looked...

When I first walked in, the customer had it closed up.  The cover formed a 
complete rectangular box.  I thought it was a coffin, or (worse!) a square! 
(Just kidding, Joe! :-)  I thought my back was going to go out... but then 
it turned out to be a (semi-) normal console, just very deep from front to 
back, with curved side pieces next to the music desk.

Yup, most of what I see out here in WV is spinets and consoles 
(dump-chasers! :-).  Makes me wonder, though, how to make them sound and 
play their best.

--Cy Shuster--
Bluefield, WV

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan" <tune4u@earthlink.net>
To: <mags@magsmusic.net>; "'Pianotech'" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 2:47 PM
Subject: RE: Aural tuning- 300 cents flat


> Ah, the MIRACLE of ultra-thin CA.
>
> I mostly tune Crappiolas for a living, here in the Ozarks, and have only a
> very few really nice pianos on my customer list. I just this morning saw a
> 1951 Everett console for the first time. Not bad. Thayer action. Hadn't 
> been
> tuned in 10+ years. Cobwebs and dust an inch thick, or so it seemed. But 
> the
> bridges and soundboard had no cracks (yea!) and the block is good except,
> for some reason, in the low bass. Pitch raise, fast tune, fine tune. 
> Charged
> accordingly. Made friends with mom, pop, and two cute little kids. Spent
> considerable time educating them. Mom's last words: "See you in six 
> months."
>
> Goal: An increasingly long list of REGULAR tunings on DECENT (if not 
> great)
> pianos and customers who become friends and tell their friends about me.
>
> Life is good. Old POC PSO's need love, too. Wish I'd known about CA about
> three years back -- before I "condemned" an absolutely gorgeous 1890
> American upright, mighta been a Crown. I think it's a desk now. Ouch.
>
> Alan R. Barnard
> Salem, MO
>
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