[pianotech] Aligned Beckets

Ron Nossaman rnossaman at cox.net
Sun Oct 4 11:14:37 MDT 2009


Al Guecia/AlliedPianoCraft wrote:
> Joe, I'm with you on this. I couldn't agree more!
>  
> If you can't *_easily_* line up the beckets from experience, What else 
> can't you do, that I don't see up front.

I don't find it an indication of anything other than a 
preoccupation with aligning beckets. I've seen a whole lot of 
junk work through the years hiding just under surface 
indications like this.


> Piano rebuilding is all about precision and details. If I find a sloppy 
> job in one place, I can surly find it in another. I also agree that the 
> beckets needn't all be at 3:00 o'clock, but they should all end up 
> _close_ to the same position. 

Close, of course. That's only reasonable. What I've been 
reading is ALIGNED, by gawd, or SLOPPY.
Ron N


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