acrosonic wippens, anyone?

[Hechler Family]

This list just can't help pissing me off every-so-often. These so-called 
"landfill" candidates are my bread-and-butter. I'm currently finishing 
up a 1919 Schaeffer player piano that had been infested with - mice. All 
felt items on the piano action were 90% percent gone - bridle straps, 
hammer rail felt, hammer spring felt, damper rail felt, etc, everything. 
Even the felt on the player parts were gone. And, yes, despite all "the 
lists" efforts, there are people with pieces of sh_t, that want there 
piano working again.

But, I must not forget my one exception to the rule. There is a lady 
that got a new Steinway grand when she graduated from college - 50+ 
years ago. This one truly need to go to the landfill but she wants it 
rebuilt - possibly new sound board, new pin block, needs restrung, new 
bridges, etc, almost everything. I am waiting to here back when she has 
the money.

SO, before you condemn all these pianos to the landfill, remember, that 
there are those of us that those are our bread-and-butter.

Regards,
Duaine - saver of candidates from the landfill

Farrell wrote:

> Sorry, I don't have any wippens for you, but I do have curiosity. What 
> is wrong with only a dozen wippens that replacement would make a 
> 65-year-old spinet functional? Is there sentimental value to the piano?
>  
> I'm always curious why it is that old pianos have such a difficult 
> time dying. I do this also - I'm currently band-aiding together a 
> 90-year-old microgrand action for a piano that I spent a good 20 
> minutes trying to convince the lady to have hauled to the 
> landfill....... (I'm talkin' gluing the keyframe back together - it's 
> totally trashed)  :-(     Tomorrow I'll be doing an elbow replacement 
> job for another piano that I recommended for the landfill. Although 
> Sunday was pleasant - I pre-purchace-inspected a 35-year-old Aeolian 
> spinet that totally crapped-out and recommended that it was not even 
> worth taking for free - and they passed on it!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Yeaaaaa!!!)
>  
> Terry Farrell
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>
>     I'm looking for a few good wippens.  Acrosonic spinet from the
>     40s, needs about a dozen wippens replaced.  This piano has those
>     wooden 'lifters' that fit through a rail above the keys. 
>
>     Anybody got any I could purchase?
>
>     Thanks in advance,
>
>     Tom Sivak
>

-- 
Duaine Hechler
Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ
Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding
Associate Member of the Piano Technicians Guild
Reed Organ Society Member
St. Louis, MO 63034
(314) 838-5587
dahechler@charter.net
www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com