Sigh, another screw loose? Oh well I guess thats how it goes <G> Joe Goss imatunr@srvinet.com www.mothergoosetools.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@cox.net> To: "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 8:46 PM Subject: Re: words technical w/piano question > > >As I near the end of my January bulk tunings, I again have been noticing a > >curious thing. On grand music racks, Why is it that, if there are two > >hinges attaching the rack to the shelf, and the screws are loose - it is > >almost always true that the loose ones will be on the top half of one > >hinge and the bottom of the other. Hardly ever on both sides of the same > >hinge. > > > >Is it a fizziks thing, or just me... > > > >Conrad Hoffsommer - Music Technician > > > Loose screws? It's just you, Conrad. > > Tuning ten times the number of pianos outside of universities than inside, > I find ten times the loose screws inside than out. I'm not entirely sure > what that means, but there it is. Being a contract tech, rather than > official inventory, I only see the pianos a couple of times a year. By > then, one or the other music desk hinges is no longer loose - it's detached > or missing altogether, and the other is torn apart by the daily clever > attempts to get it to support fifteen pounds of whatever all by it's > lonesome. I'm getting pretty good at hinge blacksmithing in practice rooms > using just the tools in my case. You know - forge, anvil, etc. > > I take a(nother) lyre back tomorrow, that was bifurcated by the clever > moving techniques of whatever portion of the maintenance staff happened to > be available for the last move. It's an S&S B, and yet another lyre stick > incidentally evaporated in the process. I'm beginning to think it's time > to tool up to make these things, since I'm running out of old beat-up > salvage replacements. It doesn't look that tough. > > Ron N > > _______________________________________________ > caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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