Hi Terry, I did restring a Pease at the beginning of my career some years ago. They kind of sound nice but, two things. If it is similar to the one I had, the last treble damper is on B5, which leaves C6 open to sing and it's kind of anoying. The person that I sold it to even wanted me to add a few dampers in the treble, but at the time and even today, I don't want to get into that since the board design would barely allow it. The other thing you will find out is this left pedal thing. It does the same as an upright, it lifts the shanks closer to the strings. But, the contraption that does that is REALLY in the way when you want to adjust the capstans; I mean REALLY. Tell us about it later, Marcel Carey From: pianolover88 at hotmail.com To: pianotech at ptg.org Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:05:18 -0700 Subject: Re: [pianotech] Weird Pease Grand Yeah it's cast iron not wood. So what is the purpose of these three metal "inserts"? Since I sublet the stringing out to someone else-he's the best, and many techs I know use his stringing services-I guess I will have to alert him to these inserts to make sure that he puts them in proper place before re-stringing! Just not sure why they even exist, and why there are "spaces" there to begin with. Does it make removal of the plate easier? Here's pics of the action and whipps. Terry Peterson Accurate Piano Service UniGeezer.com "Over 50, and not "2" Tired!" From: irs.pianos at earthlink.net To: pianotech at ptg.org Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:55:12 -0700 Subject: Re: [pianotech] Weird Pease Grand Terry ! How is the Whiipen on that piano?? .I service 2 Pease's in my cieints homes and whippens have very un-ususal design,some additional spring lever around repetition lever.... One of them is ready for new pinblock,tuning pins are flagpooling.beutiful,well preserved walnut case,ornate music desk.... If new Pin block job will happen-I will be on the alert for those wedges.. isaac On Aug 30, 2009, at 2:40 PM, pianolover 88 wrote: I had taken some pics for before & after reference, and this is the best pic I found that shows the area where those little "wedges" fit. Two of three "spaces" are visible in this pic. Terry Peterson Accurate Piano Service UniGeezer.com "Over 50, and not "2" Tired!" > Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:38:41 -0500 > From: mike.spalding1 at verizon.net > To: pianotech at ptg.org > Subject: Re: [pianotech] Weird Pease Grand > > Between needs two objects. the underside of the plate is one, what's > the other?? > > Mike > > pianolover 88 wrote: > > This time I looked closed and noticed that each of the three total > > pieces had fallen out of a spaces between the underside of the plate! > > > > > > <http://windowslive.com/Campaign/SocialNetworking?ocid=PID23285::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:SI_SB_facebook:082009> Get back to school stuff for them and cashback for you. Try Bing now. <pease.jpg> Windows Live: Keep your friends up to date with what you do online. Find out more. _________________________________________________________________ Une connexion rapide à Messenger? C'est par ici! http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9677417 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090831/a7c04d82/attachment.htm>
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