Chuck, I'm always interested to see your Journals. The first ones were fantastic!.. I'll write your email below to get on the list. Scott Gray RSG Piano Service On 10/6/2010 5:45 PM, Chuck Behm wrote: > Hello everyone - I just wanted to let everyone know that I will be > working on a new photographic journal of a restoration project > currently in the shop, and that I will be happy to send out PDF's of > the photo sets as they are available to anyone interested. > > This particular project is a 1910 Steinway upright that was donated to > the shop. The purpose of the restoration is three-fold. > > 1. To provide a opportunity for members of the Central Iowa chapter of > the PTG (and anyone else who would care to drop by) to gather one day > every other week and tackle a significant restoration job that goes > beyond the scope of what many technicians have experience with. > > 2. To provide photos and ideas for an planned upcoming series in the > Piano Technician Journal concerning a side-to-side installation of > premium pinblocks in an upright. (Three pinblocks [Bolduc, WNG, and > QM5 (offered by Schaff)]are tentatively set for being utilized and > featured in the series.) > > 3. To provide a donation to the Susan Komen Breast Cancer Foundation > through the sale of the piano at the completion of the project. The > piano will be refinished (by myself) and will have many aspects > restored, of course including the pinblock, pins and strings. It will, > I'm sure, turn out to be a beautiful instrument. > > Anyway, the first gathering of chapter members is scheduled for > tomorrow. The plan is to remove the strings, pins, plate and the sides > to the piano to ready it for the side to side routering out of 1 1/2" > of original pinblock material. > > The article to be written will hopefully (upon final approval by the > editors) appear next summer in the Journal. The photo sets, however, > will be available from me much sooner. They will have much less text > than the Journal article (just captions, really), but far more > pictures. Due to the space limitations of articles appearing in the > Journal, many pictures must be left out. No good photos will be left > out of the photo sets. (You can therefore get a sneak-preview of what > may soon be coming down the road in the Journal.) > > If you would like to begin receiving these photo sets as soon as I > make them available, please drop me a note at behmpiano at gmail.com > <mailto:behmpiano at gmail.com> > > The last photographic journal that I did went out to over 350 > technicians around the world. Hopefully, there will be similar > interest in this project. My message to beginning technicians, in > particular, is that if I can do projects like this, so can you. > > Life is more fun if you tackle a challenging job once in a while. > Makes it fun to get up in the morning. > > Sincerely, Chuck Behm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101006/d59d1423/attachment-0001.htm>
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