Square grand rebuilding

ed440 at mindspring.com ed440 at mindspring.com
Sun Feb 25 03:58:24 MST 2007


Search "PureSound Wire."  Contact Juan MasCabre for scaling help.  Have Jim Arledge do the bass strings.  Send him a copy of Juan's scaling sheet.

Abel will recover the hammers. See their web site.

Ed Sutton

-----Original Message-----
>From: stephenspianoworks at gmail.com
>Sent: Feb 25, 2007 12:58 AM
>To: pianotech at ptg.org
>Subject: Square grand rebuilding
>
>Hello,
> I'm about to begin a rebuilding adventure with a chickering square grand. Yes,
>I know everyone thinks they're pretty and pretty awful. Halarious
> opinions aside, I'm looking for any technical resources. The only
>bit of tangible advice my research has uncovered has been "leave
>plenty of lost motion". OK this is a great start. I know Randy Potter has a section on regulation in his course. But, taking the
> entire course for a nugget seems a bit fool hearty. 
>I worked for many years in a rebuild shop so I have an idea of what I'm in for just no specs to work from. My longwinded question boils
>down to this. Are ther any books that deal with square grand
> rebuilding at legnth?  Thanks for your advice. Perhaps it will end up being my calling to write that book myself haha.
> -koa stephens
>
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>



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