You are always supposed to leave your competitor's card in these pianos! On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote: > > "How was it?", he asked as I was making out the bill for the tuning. > "Well", I said, "I've seen worse rebuilds, but this is certainly a > contender". A small stencil grand, with "Hamilton" on the fall board, in a > small town church. They decided it needed tuned when they gave up trying to > find the source of the buzz coming from the tail area when they played D#-3. > The buzz took a minute or so, proving to be about an 8mm clear glass sphere > (Gypsy fortune teller mice?) sitting on the soundboard at the low end of the > tenor bridge. So much for the reason for the service call. Then I tuned it. > I made a mental checklist as I looked it over during the tuning. Bright > copper plate color, agraffes painted too. Delignit block with at least 4/0 > pins, very erratic torque throughout. Nasty sounding low tenor and killer > octave. The plate had been lowered to produce bearing on the concave > soundboard. Epoxy (?) goobered into a badly split up treble bridge cap, no > attempt made to clean up the notching, but the bridge pins were new and > filed nice and sharp on top. New keytops, overhanging all around, with lots > of slop in the original (I hope) bushings. New hammers, and an action so > badly out of regulation I'd call it unplayable. The dampers also, naturally, > worked very poorly. > > He didn't know who had done the (what looked like very recent) work, as the > piano was a donation. Surprise! That just likely means the owner got burned > on a lousy rebuild and dumped it on the church for the write off. > > I didn't leave a card in the piano. > Ron N > -- Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Olympia, WA www.pianova.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090606/41388941/attachment-0001.htm>
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