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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To Those who responded: Thanks for some excellent
input on getting interviews.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now here's something odd I ran across and was
wondering if anyone would know something about it. Last year I was hired to tune
what seemed to be a cheap Korean grand dating from the 80's. It had "Hyundai" on
the plate and "Binder and sons" on the fallboard. The odd thing about it was
that all the treble strings were looped, that is, 3 hitch pins per note, like a
Boesendorfer. The further odd thing was that after an afternoon of voicing,
especialy after taping in the bridge pins, the thing sounded amazingly good for
what it was.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Today I tuned it for the 3rd time since our first
encounter. Everything about it says cheap 5' piano except for that plate design.
The strings are rusted. A few always seem to break in my absence. There is an
huge gap between the pin block and the flange, no contact anywhere along the
flange. Yet tunings are fairly stable, which makes me less inclined to spend
hours fitting the next block I install.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But what I'm wondering is, does the stringing
design account for the uncommon quality of tone that I continue to get out this
piano?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That voicing job made me look really good. I told
the customer when he was about to try it out, that he wasn't going to recognize
that piano. He replied, "You're right, I don't. What a pleasure!" I had never
had a piano come so far in one day. It had the same old hammers (though I had
filed them) and the same old rusty strings, but sounded radicaly
different.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>John Pope</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Centre College</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Danville, KY</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>