American School of Piano Tuning

[Wayne M. Williams]

Dear Wayne,
I have been working on this Kranich and Bach piano for some time. I have two 
nicknames for it:
1. Pandora's Box(in that every time you open it sometihing new goes wrong, 
and
2. The piano from hell (self explantory)

I first leveled all the keys. Now the action no longer fits on them (or 
lines up properly). I found some wiggling hammers and dampers. Tried to 
replace them, but couls not find any parts to match. I guess I could rebush 
them, but they are really "shot" and I would rather just replace them.

I chatted on the phone noted piano tech Dick Dante, He told me that a 
Kranich and Bach needs to be completely restored in order to work properly. 
On the other hand, the K+B grands are high quality intruments.  Go figure.

thank for writing back. Do you need any more tuners in Sydney? Let me know.

Regards,
Wayne

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wayne Walker" <wayne.w at musicstop.com>
To: "'Pianotech List'" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 1:27 PM
Subject: RE: American School of Piano Tuning


> Hi Wayne,
> "Red" Mike MacDonald does warranty tunings for the pianos sold from our
> Sydney store. I was in Sydney last week tuning our floor stock. From
> talking to our guys at the store, Mike is the only tuner for the island
> of CB. We bought the McKnight's Music about 4 or 5 years ago. Last year
> we moved the store across the street in the old Crowell building which
> we gutted and remodelled.
> What seems to be the problem with the Kranich upright? Surely someone on
> the list can offer some ideas on how to fix it.
>
> Wayne Walker
> Piano Tuner / Technician
> Musicstop Acoustic Piano Service
> 264 Herring Cove Road
> Halifax, NS, Canada
> B3P 1M1
> 902-221-1540
> 902-496-6924 Fax
> www.musicstop.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wayne M. Williams [mailto:wwilliams11 at nycap.rr.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 12:22 PM
> To: Pianotech List
> Subject: Re: American School of Piano Tuning
>
>
> Dear John:
> I am starting to attend meetings of the PTG out of the Capital district
> of
> Albany. I am going to a meeting in Lake George to hear the Hilberts,
> rebuilders from Vermont do a presentation. Today I contacted Dick Dante
> from
> Long Island and I will be meeting him on August first.
>
> I have the Reblitz book, so I need to read it more often..
>
> Thanks for the info. By the way, I lived in Sydney from 1977 to 1991,
> where
> I taught instrumental and eneral music for the Cape Breton Distrct
> School
> Board. By the way, do you know a piano tech named "Red" Mike MacDonald
> from
> Sydney? He tuned our piano in sydnet and is a good friend who got me
> interested in piano tech away back in the 80's.
>
> Take care.
>
> Wayne Williams
> Schroon Lake, NY 12870
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Ross" <jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca>
> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 10:37 PM
> Subject: American School of Piano Tuning
>
>
>> Hi Wayne,
>> Get the Arthur Reblitz book from the library, it might help. The
>> unfortunate thing, is that it is hard to unlearn wrong methods that
>> you have learned. Join the PTG as soon as possible, and possibly some
>> RPT will take you under his wing.
>> The help you get will depend on the amount of work available, in your
>> area. Because it is kind of hard to train your future competition, if
> you
>> are short of work yourself.
>> Just keep working, doing the best job you can.
>> Don't charge for the amount of time it takes you, if you are getting
> the
>> job done by trial and error, the customer should not pay for your
> learning
>> experiences. Charge for the amount of time it should have taken you,
> if
>> you got it right the first time.
>> John M. Ross
>> Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada.
>> jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Wayne M. Williams" <wwilliams11 at nycap.rr.com>
>> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
>> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 10:24 PM
>> Subject: Re:American School of Piano Tuning
>>
>>
>>> Dear John:
>>> I took the course from the American School in the year 200, and found
>>> that for repair work there is no easy way to explain it. It is indeed
>
>>> inadequate in this regard, and I soon found myself up to my neck, so
> to
>>> speak, in repairs I could not handle, I am in the middle of trying to
>
>>> repair and 1912 Kranich and Bach upright, and the owner is frustrated
> and
>>> growing more impatient by the day that I can't get it to work
> "right". I
>>> probably should take the randy Potter course. Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Wayne Williams
>>> Schroon Lake.Y 12870
>
>
>
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