[pianotech] Guess what I have in my shop?!

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Where is this piano sitting in the scheme of things as an antique piano.
It's fairly early.  I'm not the expert here, you might want to check with
someone like Bill Schull to determine the scarcity of this puppy and how
many of his cousins were made before you do anything irreversible.  

 

Welcome back, Terry, you cheerful soul!

 

Will Truitt

 

From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Terry Farrell
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 6:19 PM
To: joegarrett at earthlink.net; pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Guess what I have in my shop?!

 

Hi Joe - comments interspersed below:

 


Terry the Farrell said: 
"HOT DOG! 1867 Steinway square. Likely will not be pulling plate. Doing
some bridge repairs, restringing, dampers, full action rebuild. Case is
nearly flawless. Should be nice when done....."

Joe Garrett wrote:
I would strongly suggest you pull the plate and do pinblock route/replace!

 

Well, I hadn't decided what I'm gonna do there. The pins are original with
maybe 30 in-lbs. torgue (not tight, but good enough to tune it). I could
just go one size up, or I was thinking of maybe plugging through the plate.
Never done that before, but I was toying with trying it. I've plugged square
blocks before when I've pulled the plate out - I like doing that - but I am
not planning on yanking the plate on this one.

 

Any comments on this?





Cap the bridges..don't just "mess with it"!

 

Well, being that this is sort-of an economy job, and I wasn't intending on
pulling the plate, I was thinking more along the lines of a good epoxy
repair.





If the dampers are reasonably functional..leave them alone. If not, then
duplicate EXACTLY what is there. DO NOT put modern Wedge type dampers on
it! (PLEASE???!!!) 

 

Sounds reasonable. Curious though - why not use wedges?





Do a scale evaluation and reset it for 440cps. Use
435cps as your criteria for the initial scale run...then change that
perameter. 

 

Yup. Already planning on that.





Hmmm? And where are you going to get the action parts for this "full action
rebuild"???Hmmmm?<G> 

 

Well, okay, I guess I was exaggerating a bit - how 'bout "fairly thorough"?
Hammer butts and jacks are in pretty good shape - I think it will regulate
quite well with the originals. New hammers though. Somebody replaced the
hammers - looks like normal grand hammers and some grade-schooler went at
them with a dull knife to shape them.......  :-(





Yes, it will be "nice when done"....properly. Try a
Victorian Temperament to really get the full enchilada.<G>

 

Like what?





BTW, I wouldn't get up on replacing the board, since that thing was flat 2
days after it was installed. (scope out the ribbing//rim mounting, etc. and
you'll get what I mean. On those, it really doesn't matter. Ya gets what ya
gets.

 

Oh, come on, I was just about to head out to my shop and start laminating
some 4 M ribs for the new board! Let's see...... 4M ribs up by the treble,
15M ribs in the bass area - oh, wait a minute - the bass IS at the treble
end!!!!!! What to do?????  Yeah, original board will stay. I've torn into a
few of these before and very quickly realized that there never was any crown
to those boards - at least not after they were strung in the factory. Board
is in good shape - no cracks - besides, why would I want to tear the soul of
the piano out?  ;-)

 

Terry Farrell

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