---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Tim: Thanks for your note. The first problem here is the realization that while $200,000 has been spent on these 3 pianos, there is considerably less than $200,000 in value here. Now we're talking about several thousand more to wapinize them. That might be a good, or even the ultimate solution. I suppose if I had 100% confidence that it would fix it, I'd probably push for it. It is cheaper than a new board. Unfortunately, the only Wapin piano I've seen is the job we did on your brother's piano. While it did make it better, that piano was not "bad" before. It was actually a very nice piano before. These pianos are "bad". This makes me want to try a very cheap fix. If it works, great! If it doesn't we'll go to plan B. What I'd really love to do is send them all somewhere where a new, rib-crowned, rescaled sounding board could be installed. However, that doesn't look financially feasible at the moment. dave *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 12/4/2002 at 8:12 AM Tim Coates wrote: Hi Dave, I'm dead serious when I say this: you need to install Wapin. It has never failed to fix this problem. There is a pianist who drives from Dallas to Cedar Rapids, IA to record because there is no Wapin SSD in Dallas. It's real. It works. It's cost effective. You don't have be worried about removing it because it didn't work. Tim Coates Wapin Company LLP David M. Porritt wrote: I've been inspired! I have a client, a university in East Texas that has a 5 year old "D" that is dead. Sustain is gone. I have a "B" and a "D" here that are 9 years old. The "B" is not dead yet, but the vultures are circling. I read in the archives again last night the post from Del of April 2001 on putting the sounding board springs in. I've ordered the springs from McMaster and I've remembered I have some nice "L" shaped maple that can serve as the mounts for the system. This maple had a former life as damper lifter trays. I hope to be able to bring a little life to our two pianos here, then try it on the East Texas piano. When you think about $200,000 worth of less than 10 year old pianos in this shape, you really want to do something, anything! I like the fact that I can just remove the additional apparatus if this doesn't make an improvement. If I do it over winter break and it doesn't work, no one will ever know. If it does work, I'll make sure everybody knows!! I'll let you know how it goes. dave _____________________________ David M. Porritt dporritt@mail.smu.edu Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 _____________________________ _____________________________ David M. Porritt dporritt@mail.smu.edu Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 _____________________________ ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/94/13/3f/3f/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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