Treasures in pianos

[Fenton Murray]

While tuning an old Steinway Upright I noticed many tuning dates in pencil from the early 1900s, all from the same tuner. I also noticed an arrow pointing to a note in the tuning pin area with the word 'buzz', same handwriting from the same era, sure enough it was still buzzing, mind you I'm on the scene maybe 85 years later. I can't leave this one alone, I looked around, pulled the action and saw the bridge notching just a little bit off with the string contacting the bridge side cut on a firm blow, a little chisel work and all is well. That guy can sleep now. We gotta help each other out in this biz.
Fenton
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Willem Blees 
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  Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 12:05 PM
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  Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
  Piano Tuner/Technician
  Honolulu, HI
  Author of 
  The Business of Piano Tuning
  available from Potter Press
  www.pianotuning.com


  -----Original Message-----
  From: Paul T Williams <pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu>
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  Sent: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 3:38 am
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  It's cool to see old dates and tuners who used to sign the plate in old uprights.  The best one I saw was an old upright painted white and inside on the green plate was a techs name and dated 1909, Nome Alaska!  It either had to be in a bar or missionary.  What else could have been there in those days? 

  pw 



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  Various coins, of course, including a 1913, 10 shilling, silver coin from India. 
    
  Dog food, mice nests, little skeletons, and palmetto bug carasses and the like in keybeds. 
    
  A miniature ceramic skunk. 
    
  A business card with a phone number: 451-L 
    
  A tiny thank you note from one neighbor to another, from April 1944 with a 'Win the War' .03 Victory stamp.  It was sent from 168 Peachtree Circle to 1382 Peachtree Street, same city. 
    
  In a summer home, half the fringe from the oriental carpet made a nice nest among the tracker bar tubing in an upright player. 
    
  One of the best finds was starting a rebuild on a Cornish reed organ on April 11, 1996 and inside finding the hand written date from a previous service, April 11, 1906! 
    
  Debbie Legg 
    
    


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