spring thing bling bling

[Barbara Richmond]

Hi Ron,

Amazing things happen.  I'm afraid there are some pianos out there that I
would like to track down and destroy from when I first started in the
business.  :-o   I can't say I ever did anything quite so <colorful> fifteen
years into it, though.

Speaking of staying on the wrong track, after I had been in business for
some years (it's all a blur), there was a fellow in my community who wanted
to be a piano tech.  Every once in a while I would get a call from him, he
would pose a question, I would answer it and then he'd want to argue about
the information I had given him.  The best example I remember was when he
called about a bobbling hammer problem in an old upright piano.

While going through the steps of regulation, I asked, "What's the key dip?"

"One quarter inch."

"That's not enough."

"I want it to play like a harpsichord."

"It's a piano."

"But that's the way I want it."

I can't remember how I got off the phone.......


Barbara Richmond, RPT


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman@cox.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 4:27 PM
Subject: spring thing bling bling


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>
> Some puzzles still remain. First, what conceivable pathological logic
> process would lead anyone who's been in this business for at least 15
> years to the conclusion that springs riding in Emralon coated grooves were
> causing excessive touch weight? Second, what conceivable pathological
> logic process would lead anyone of ANY experience level to conclude that
> adding spring punchings had fixed the problem when pressing down a random
> key in the middle of the scale would clearly indicate that it hadn't?
>
> Stuff like this baffles me, even after seeing it for the 7,012th time
> (don't get out much).
>
> Hey, at least it's about pianos.
> Ron N
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