The only problem I see with that is I won't be getting much work.
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--- On Sat, 6/13/09, J Patrick Draine <jpdraine at gmail.com> wrote:
From: J Patrick Draine <jpdraine at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [pianotech] sluggish (was no subject)
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Date: Saturday, June 13, 2009, 9:07 PM
Wurlitzer had a range of models they offered, from the "most cheap" ("Rudolph Wurlitzer") to slightly taller, fancier casework models. The most expensive ones had "individually (?) weighed off keys" as one of the "sales features." Most of the other models did not.
And re: your question about "what if 'repair/adjustment X or Y" does not really solve the "obvious problem", I suggest that you attend a class by, or have a long phone conversation with, Jack Wyatt regarding what "excellent service" is for aging spinets and consoles. The answer is learn how to do it right (the whole reconditioning package), and sell the job effectively; avoid the band-aid approach. Learn in some else's shop, or in a school, or do lots of refurbishing & rebuilding in your own shop, to the highest standards you can achieve. Your customers expect this level of skill from you.
End of sermon,
Patrick
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Matthew Todd <toddpianoworks at att.net> wrote:
Do most Wurlitzer consoles have weights in their keys to begin with? The reason I ask is because the piano in question does not.
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--- On Sat, 6/13/09, Gerald Groot <tunerboy3 at comcast.net> wrote:
From: Gerald Groot <tunerboy3 at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [pianotech] sluggish (was no subject)
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Date: Saturday, June 13, 2009, 8:39 PM
If we free it up and it works, that means then the key weights in the fronts
do not need attention or addtions to the rear of the key. If a person wants
to go through and re-pin that's fine too. But, like I and others have said,
I've been able to clear up all of the problems without re-weighting.
Eliminating the problem, not the symptom is the resolution.
-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Ron Nossaman
Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 4:24 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] sluggish (was no subject)
Gerald Groot wrote:
> *The last time I actually placed any weights on any piano was over 30
> years ago. It may take time to figure it out. Sometimes, we all need
> to call in the troupes for assistance to figure out what is causing
> these problems but, just because weighting 'appears' to solve the
> problem, that does not mean, that is the problem. *
And I think it's just the opposite. Just because lubricating
the wip centers made it work doesn't mean that was the
problem. The keys are too front heavy. If everything else is
optimal and as friction free as possible, the action will more
or less work anyway. It doesn't take much friction in a key
bushing, wippen cushion or center, or whatever, to make these
actions sluggish. Friction levels in these places in other
better balanced actions aren't usually show stoppers, but
these actions are right on the edge of functionality at best.
I have, through the years, put leads on a few keys in
Wurlitzers, when lubrication and easing didn't get it, and the
customer wasn't interested in spending what it was likely to
take to otherwise make it "work", but just wanted that one or
two keys to be made to work as economically (cheaply) as
possible.
Ron N
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