[pianotech] Interesting find

[Ken & Pat Gerler]

David,

I have put wedges of wood between either harp or backposts when there were 
"major" buzzed because of looseness between soundboard and ribs to eliminate 
buzzes when the customer didn't have the money for even the extra time to 
repair correctly - that just so I could tune the piano.

Ken Gerler
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Love" <davidlovepianos at comcast.net>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Interesting find


> Having wacked countless wedges between ribs and beams as well as inserted 
> trap springs in various parts of the piano as pictured I would tend to 
> report a drop off in volume and a modest increase in sustain. Of course, I 
> might be hallucinating.
>
>
> David Love
> www.davidlovepianos.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net>
> Sender: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org
> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:07:30
> To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Reply-To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Interesting find
>
>
> I find it both interesting and depressing to consider how far we might
> have gotten by now if we didn't reset to zero and start all over again
> so often.
>
> Here, we have professional piano technicians, every one of whom has at
> least occasional access to an actual piano, speculating without evidence
> on the imagined tonal result of wedging one rib up on a beam. Yet not
> one has spent the ten minutes necessary to whack out a quick wedge and
> actually try it, so they'll know from experience what they're talking
> about. Isn't anyone curious enough to spend 35¢ and find out something
> this simple for themselves?
>
> Ron N
> Maybe there's a phone app... "I-Guess".
>
>