[CAUT] Tired wippens

[Porritt, David]

Wim:

Why would you want to get rid of old Ms & Os?  It's not like they have
come out with new-and-improved models.  They just brought back the O.
You can have them fully rebuilt (redesigned if you wish) for
considerably less money and probably have much better instruments.  

dave

David M. Porritt
dporritt at smu.edu

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Paul

If you can get the money to replace them, by all means do so. But you 
will also have to change the capstans. Perhaps that is why Richard 
avoided doing that in the past. The other thing to consider is that if 
you leave the piano alone, perhaps you can get the funds to replace 
the piano. I've got a couple 30's vintage M's and O's that I would 
love to throw out and replace. But I don't have any money, not even 
for new parts, much less for new instruments. I keep hoping that if 
enough students complain, somehow, someone up the line will hear my 
plea.  


Willem Blees, RPT
Piano Tuner/Technician
School of Music
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL USA