Great story, Don. This post of yours was chock full of beneficial information for me. Thank you ever so much, Keith On Aug 30, 2009, at 6:31 PM, Don Mannino wrote: > … Story time: I was once sent out to check an old M&H BB that had > been rebuilt under contract for a dealer, then sold. The new owner > was complaining that it didn't stay in tune well. When I checked > the piano the tuning pins were not very tight, but then I found that > both wedges (this is the only BB I have seen that had 2 plate horns) > were missing. I took measurements of the gaps, rough cut new wedges > out of some scrap iron I had at home, then filed them to fit tight > at the customer's home. Then I changed the tuning pins - and man oh > man, did that piano ever sound better! It had a big, fat tone that > was missing before, and this really demonstrated to me that those > plate horns can really contribute to the sound! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090830/14c2002d/attachment.htm>
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