[CAUT] NY hammers/ Hamburg hammers

[Horace Greeley]

Hi, Dale,

At 08:58 PM 2/12/2011, you wrote:

>"How much is it if you only tune the white keys, they're the only ones I
>play?" from Jimmy Gold RPT

Actually, while I can't speak to the amount necessary to pay for it, 
I can answer the question (sort of):

"Sure!  I'll be more than happy to tune just the white keys for 
you.  However, you do understand that, in order for the white keys to 
stay in tune for very long, I'll have to be exceptionally careful in 
adjusting the tension on the strings of the black keys.  Since that 
takes so much more time, and is so much more demanding that just 
tuning the whole piano as I normally would, it will be much more expensive...".

...

"It's not a defect...it's a feature!..."....Bill Gates....


Cheers.

Horace



>Dale Probst RPT
>Registered Piano Technician
>Midwestern State University
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Fred
>Sturm
>Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 10:18 PM
>To: caut at ptg.org
>Subject: Re: [CAUT] NY hammers/ Hamburg hammers
>
>
>On Feb 12, 2011, at 9:13 PM, Ward & Probst, Inc wrote:
>
> >  It was picked up, sat down on the slab in playing position (the only
> > vertical thing around) and other than scratches and usual
> > debris inside
> > (insulation, wood splinters, etc) it was playable after cleanup.
> > Well, as
> > playable as it was before...
>
>
>Oh, come on, admit it was also "still in tune" ;-)
>Regards,
>Fred Sturm
>fssturm at unm.edu
>"Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them." Coco
>Chanel