Ed and Me

[michelle stranges]

Hey BIll- Thanx for your reply.

Just saw the dreaded piano action again Saturday and those springs are as 
high and dangerous to keep in shape as the Golden Gate Bridge.
(Or insert other scary/high thingy which would need maintenance.)

:(

Yup- we've gotten ourselves in a pickle and now we'll have to do what you 
did which is try it ONCE and then never again.

Ed DID replace all of the jacks from the ones that were available from 
Schaff (yes, Wim- you're right about those being available..) but that's 
all Schaff has.
They still look and feel terrible.

HEH!!

I even found a wicked cheap Kranich and Bach grand on-line from a store in 
Montana (I think it was) and asked if they'd sell us just the action.

Nope.
THey got a good hoot out of our story though...

:(

Thanx again.
All feedback helps- even if it's for sympathy reasons.


:)
Michelle

--On Sunday, August 15, 2004 6:46 AM -0400 Bill  Maxim <wmaxim@sc.rr.com> 
wrote:

> In the distant past I tried to rescue a Kranich and Bach grand that had
> among other difficulties lots of broken jacks.  If I am ever asked again,
> I will pass up the opportunity, whether the customer "really likes the
> piano" or not.
>
> Problem # 1 was that neither the long arm nor the short arm jacks were
> right.  This piano needed something in between, but I ordered a set of
> long arm jacks from somewhere--was it Tuners Supply?  I decided to
> replace only those actually broken.
>
> Problem #2 showed up a couple of years later when some of the new jacks
> began to break at the bird's eye.  (I've got the rest of the set somewhere
> and you're welcome to them if I can find them)
>
> Problem #3 is that the action was of poor design anyway and like all other
> K&B grands I have run into, did not work well and would not stay in
> regulation.
>
> Bill Maxim
> Maxim Piano Service
> (803) 732-9225 - Cell (803) 609-4761
> wmaxim@sc.rr.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "michelle stranges" <stranges@Oswego.EDU>
> To: "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 4:13 PM
> Subject: Re: Ed and Me
>
>
>> Oops- Yes Wim- you're right about being able to get the jacks from
>> Schaff- but we need more than that, unfortunately..
>>
>> :)
>> Michelle
>>
>
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