Remove old finishes fast!

[Alan Barnard]

Goodness. I didn't realize that Dave had NOT sent it just to me. Oh, well. I sent him a private response and have no ill feelings towards him. Heck, he's been one of the great List Contributors over the years. I think that one of our biggest modern problems is that everyone insists on being right. to the point of hostility towards anyone who doesn't agree with our beliefs about ... whatever. And it's a very infectious condition!

Alan Barnard
Salem, MO




Original message
From: erwinspiano at aol.com
To: ilvey at sbcglobal.net, pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 5/1/2008 12:37:51 PM
Subject: Re: Remove old finishes fast!




     Come on Dave
  No offense but I think he said e-mail him privately.  
  Besides if we are to vent let's remember that Americans are not the worst polluters in the world & also let's remember that we have done much & probably more than other developing nations on the planet to curb green house gas. Let's vent at the Chinese whos' coal burning plants now pollute or own air here on the west coast.  Think  they care? sure.....
  Or go to Cabo and see if the gov. there have done anything to assist auto emissions on new cars. Stand on the street corner & you'll know.
  It isn't all us.
   I hardly think Alan is a major polluter. Yes it was cynical. Arent' we all just a bit?
   Dale


It is interesting to see someone showing the world/earth what an ass he is...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Alan Barnard" <pianotuner at embarqmail.com>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 4/29/2008 7:59:16 PM
Subject: Remove old finishes fast!


>Knew the subject line would lure you in ...

>Here's how Jesse French and I celebrated Earth Day: removing the old finish, 
>reducing the piano's weight by half, tweaking certain noses, and putting badly 
>needed carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

>The most fun moment was pushing it over: Wham!

>Interesting observations: Many of the plain wire strings snapped right at the 
>speaking-side bridge pin as they got hot -- all that broke, broke at that same 
place 
>(more tension in speaking segment?). Somewhere late in the game, as the 
pinblock 
>area was burning (took a loooong time), the plate broke. I was not too far away 
and 
>it was scary loud: Bang! I am reminded of the customer who's Kawai grand burned 

>completely in a house fire; he asked me did I want to salvage any of the parts, 

>perhaps the strings? Uh, no thanks. I did salvage some action pieces (stickers 
and 
>whippens) and all the hardware, especially screws, I could reasonably get to. 
They 
>don't now make hardware with a tenth of the quality of this 90-year-old stuff.




>Alan Barnard
>Salem, MO


>P.S. If anyone is bothered by my sooty footprints, email me privately and I'll 
tell you 
>a little secret.



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