Smokin! was removing wrest pins from the piano

[Delwin D Fandrich]

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| Sent: September 05, 2005 7:36 PM
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| Subject: Re: Smokin! was removing wrest pins from the piano
| 
| Dale  writes:
| 
| <<  Any body know any one who's done this?  actually I think 
| the market is changing in small amounts with limited 
| consumers  but hey all high end consumers are well.... limited
|   Dale >>
| 
| Andre gave me the impression that this was not an uncommon 
| job at their shop. 
|  Canadian economics could well differ from the American "replacement" 
| syndrome, or there are far fewer high quality uprights 
| available up there.  I don't know. 
|     I don't know anyone that has replaced an upright block, 
| myself.  I have used CA on a couple of friends pianos as a 
| last-ditch effort, and it worked.  
| Regards,
|  
| Ed Foote RPT

We've done a number of them. As Dale points out, this work is generally limited
by the economics of the thing. We rarely do an upright on spec. but do
occasionally do one for an owner.

Incidentally, I've done classes on installing pinblock sections. It's really not
all that hard, nor is it all that time-consuming.

Del