[pianotech] adding weights

[David Boyce]

It all makes perfect sense!  Well done you!

Child labor is the answer to many things, I feel (I am JOKING here, 
folks!).  Some years ago we took some foreign students on a trip to the 
nuclear power station near here (there was a visitor centre then, with 
tours. Not sure if there still is).  Water is heated by nuclear fuel 
rods, to make steam to drive turbines to make electricity.

I was struck by the small physical size of the two turbines, which have 
a very large output, making something like a quarter of all Scotland's 
electricity.  I found myself thinking, Why mess about with nuclear fuel 
rods. If you had a sufficient number of  hyperactive chilldren on 
bicycles, with the right gearing, they could spin the turbines.....

After all, we never heard about children with ADHD when we sent them 
down the mines and up the chimneys......

I am JOKING folks, OK?

Best regards,

David.
www.davidboyce.co.uk

> I made a little over $50/hr shop time, more really, because my younger 
> kids did much of the work of pulling hammers off, gluing Ecsaine on, 
> etc. I focused on the weights and overseeing the kids. The piano is in 
> otherwise very nice condition and has a beautiful cabinet. It is in a 
> small church, and you gotta figure their replacement cost would be $4k 
> or so. It took them 2 years to approve spending $500 on the repair and 
> another $500 on a climate control system. Imagine how long it would 
> have taken them to approve a $4k purchase?
>
> *Dean*

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