<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" = xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" = xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" = xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 10"> <link rel=File-List href="cid:filelist.xml@01C3B81B.FAF95D60"> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="time"/> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="date"/> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"/>  <style>  </style>  </head> <body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple = style='tab-interval:.5in'> <div class=Section1> Wim,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Does it have the same problem I = complained about last month with our 8 new S&S grands, i.e. pinning = /touchweight problems? When I repinned (4-5 grams) and regulated the B’s sound = was wonderful, but I still have the touchweight to do. How is the = pinning?<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <st1:PersonName>Jim = Busby</st1:PersonName> BYU<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> -----Original = Message----- From: = caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On = Behalf Of Wimblees@aol.com Sent: = <st1:date Month="12" Day="1" Year="2003">Monday, December 01, = 2003</st1:date> <st1:time Hour="14" Minute="20">2:20 PM</st1:time> To: caut@ptg.org Subject: It's = Alive!!!! <o:p> </o:p> <div> Well, actually, it's dead. = At least that is what Olga Kern told me last week. She was here to give a = recital. I prepped our new D, and put it in the middle of the stage. At 6:30 I = stopped by to see if there was anything she needed. She said, "This piano = is dead." I said it was only a year old, and had probably only been = played about a dozen times. She said, it sounded like it. I should have kept my = mouth shut, but I offered her our 14 year D, which was sittting off stage. = After playing just 3 chords, she said she wanted to play the recital on that = piano, but only after warming up on it. I had 15 minutes to tune it before the = doors opened. Unfortunately, by the end of the fist half, there were several = notes that didn't make it. <o:p></o:p> </div> <div>  <o:p></o:p></fo= nt> </div> <div> But that is not what I'm = here to complain about. Olga was not the first pianist to complain about the new = piano. Last March Misha Dichter had the same complaint. (but at least he gave = me 2 hours to prep the older piano). My question is, how do I put more = "life" into a new piano? As I said, the piano only comes out of it's hiding = place for special occasions. (No, sun down is not a special occasion here in = Alabama, especially not on Sundays.) Since we got the piano in August of last = year, there have been about 12 performances on it. The piano is voiced, = regulated, etc., so I don't quite understand when a performer says there is no = life in the piano. Not even our piano faculty agrees with that, although they = do think the piano is a little stiffer than the older one. = <o:p></o:p> </div> <div>  <o:p></o:p></fo= nt> </div> <div> Any advice will be greatly appreciated. <o:p></o:p> </div> <div>  <o:p></o:p></fo= nt> </div> <div> Wim<o:p></o:p>= </div> <div> Willem Blees, RPT Piano tuner/technician School of Music University of Alabama<o:p></o:p> </div> </div> </body> </html>