[pianotech] stapled hammers, revisited

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

wimblees at aol.com wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Conrad Hoffsommer <hoffsoco at luther.edu>
> To: pianotech list <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Sent: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 2:03 am
> Subject: [pianotech] stapled hammers, revisited
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> The contact also said she'd be calling me soon to tune at her home - a 
> Gulbransen spinet she'd gotten since I was last there. 
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> It don't get better than this... 
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> -- Conrad Hoffsommer, RPT - Keyboard Technician 
> Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 
> 1-(563)-387-1204 // Fax 1-(563)-387-1076 
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> Back in St. Louis, I had a piano teacher call me 10 years after I tuned 
> her piano, because she knew it should be done every so often. It was a 
> Gully spinet. Guess what. That damn thing was on pitch, and just 
> slightly out of tune. Those Gully's hang in there. 
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> Wim
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One can only hope...
She said she got it from a friend about 10 years ago. I don't know if 
it's been tuned since it got moved, and it wasn't me if it HAS been.
The Gully's I see around here have some of the wildest pitch changes 
you'd ever want. I wouldn't be surprised to see 100-200¢...


-- 
Conrad Hoffsommer, RPT - Keyboard Technician
Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045
1-(563)-387-1204 // Fax 1-(563)-387-1076