>Hi Chuck, My answers for an upright repining. I assume you are installing new strings on the project piano? Carlos K. Ralon, RPT< Thanks for the input, Carlos. I'll add your preferences to the data I'm compiling. The project piano that I'm documenting will have new pinblock panels, new strings and pins. Dave nearly has the refinishing of the case complete at this point (one coat to go, I believe), and I've got quite a bit of the action restoration done. I'll probably wait until after Grand Rapids to router the pinblock for replacement panels. I also have to rebush and recover the keys, so there's plenty left to do. The questions in the survey, however, are geared towards a simple repinning project in which the old strings are retained. I know some people would never consider one without the other, but here in the midwest, many pianos suffer from dry and loose pinblocks caused by heating systems that suck the water out of the air for the entire winter. Often homes are so dry in the winter that you get shocked from static electricity every time you touch metal. So, a piano in that environment will eventually have loose tuning pins. A lot of times the strings are the least of the problems, so if finances are a concern for the customer, I recommend one job without the other. (Sometimes, however, both repairs are needed - then we do both.) In a typical year, I will repin 3 - 6 pianos, both grands and uprights, over the course of a winter. When we have pianos in the shop to repin and restring in the summer, we run both air conditioning and dehumidifiers to keep the air as dry as possible. Again, thanks for your input. I'll be posting the results of the survey in several days, when I have a representative sample. Chuck -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090622/24395a3d/attachment.htm>
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