glue on the fingers

[Dean May]

I have on one occasion seen a buzz caused by a loose screw in a soundboard
button. 

Dean

Dean May             cell 812.239.3359 

PianoRebuilders.com   812.235.5272 

Terre Haute IN  47802


-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of David Love
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 1:15 AM
To: 'Pianotech List'
Subject: RE: glue on the fingers

I have to agree with Ron here, I've never heard a buzzing screw in this
situation and considering the number of pianos that screw the soundboard to
the ribs as a production procedure (Bechstein for example) where there is no
evidence of buzzing it seems like their must be some other source in those
situations.  

David Love
davidlovepianos at comcast.net 
www.davidlovepianos.com

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Ron Nossaman
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 8:35 PM
To: Pianotech List
Subject: Re: glue on the fingers


> Wow! It never occurred to me that this "finishing" a job was screwing 
> the customer. All of 20 minutes to do the plugging and clean-up. I have 
> had the experience of going in behind other technicians on this type of 
> repair and finding the most godawful mess, and because the client called 
> me about continued buzzing in the board, which was caused by the screw 
> in the rib which, when I removed it and plugged the hole in the rib, the 
> noise went away. I can't recall that I fractionalized out the cost of 
> the final steps as "additional", but simply costed the whole job. It's 
> negligible, whatever it is. We all go to sleep at night in a different 
> position :-).
>  
> Paul

As far as I know, I've never left a godawful mess doing this 
repair, nor have I ever, that's *EVER* known first hand of a 
screw buzzing in this situation. If I had, I'd likely have a 
different opinion. So for me, the job is finished when the 
screw is tight and the squeeze out is mopped up. I may yet get 
a call any minute now about a buzzing screw from that last job 
I did, but it's pretty quiet so far.

Ron N