How to adjust let-off with no adjustable capstan?

[Stéphane Collin]

Well well.

I must say that your answer sounds typically american.  Main purpose is 
money to get out of the situation.  No money, no reasonable reason to go for 
it.  Old no money klunker, trash.  Old fashioned apparently not efficient 
desing, forget it.  If needed, replace by the efficient thing.  Other, 
discard and trash.  This does make sense.  But there is some sense it doesn' 
make.

Best regards.

Stéphane Collin.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman@cox.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 11:10 PM
Subject: Re: How to adjust let-off with no adjustable capstan?


>> Hi Ron.
>>
>> Bah, and then, if you were a sculptor, would you choose clay (sooo easy) 
>> or marble (sooo difficult) for your next masterpiece ?  What would you
>> make tend toward one or the other material ?
>
> I'd chose the clay for playing with, and the marble for the finished work 
> (unless I cast the clay in bronze), but this is an entirely different 
> thing. We aren't making a masterpiece with this old capstan challenged 
> upright. It's a no pay, maximum aggravation, zero expectation lost cause 
> that realistically passed it's life expectancy many (manymanymany) years 
> ago. If I was trapped into adjusting lost motion in this critter, I'd just 
> cut my losses, add real capstans, and escape as quickly, cheaply, and 
> thoroughly as possible with a promise to myself to do everything I could 
> to avoid being in that situation again. It doesn't always work, naturally, 
> because we always eventually find ourselves in another no win situation. 
> It's the nature of us.
>
>
>> Beware, as the answer on this question will tell much about the intimate 
>> you.
>
> Too late! I'm exposed.
>
>
>
> No peeking.
>
> Ron N
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