Aural tuning- 300 cents flat

[Alan]

I'm not sure what you are describing. The Thayer is an inverted action with
an extra rail, set of flanges, and wooden stickers descending into the
bowels of the piano rather than the end-of-stick wire system.  It feels more
solid and--HUZZAH--can be lifted out of the piano without the bailing wire
and chewing gum routine.

As to your comments on making "Dump-chasers" (I love it) sound their best.
I'm actually formulating some thoughts for a Journal article on that very
subject based on a lot of frustrating early-years experience. I might
actually write it, who knows. 

Alan R. Barnard
Salem, MO


-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Cy Shuster
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 2:40 PM
To: Pianotech
Subject: Re: Aural tuning- 300 cents flat


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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