[pianotech] Waltham, was Pic Puzzler

Ron Nossaman rnossaman at cox.net
Sat Nov 12 07:42:08 MST 2011


On 11/12/2011 6:46 AM, Mike Spalding wrote:
> David,
>
> Pretty darn tall, I have a recollection of the top being at about eye
> level. And yes, the original hammer line was straight across like that.
> You can see they ran the v-bar upwards in order to move the strike point
> without having to graduate the shank lengths. What else was done besides
> new hammers and shanks? This was Grampa's piano, bought new for his new
> bride, and lately stored in the enclosed but unheated farmhouse porch.
> Here's the proposal they accepted:


I made a similar estimate about two weeks ago - another of many. It's 
been a very long time since anyone has chosen to do the rebuild.
Ron N


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