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[Greg Newell]

On Thu, 07 Mar 1996 06:13:06 -0700 (MST) you wrote:

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>Boy do I feel better - - - been working on an old Kronicly Bad and pulling by
>hair out.  How good to hear about floppy keybeds, inaccesible parts, general
>fragility and weirdness - I thought I was just being stupid.
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>My first warning was when I happily took the action back to the shop for some
>regulating, returned it a few months later after custom fitting some new,
>unfittable parts, and found the keybed had warped so far that the action
>wouldn't fit back in!  (What goes out must go back in again -right?
>).  Really a mercy killing would have been the best thing at that point, but
>I couldn't bring myself to do it, owner can't pay for rebuilding, which would
>be a questionable expense for this instrument anyway.  This was the beginning
>of innumerable visits to this piano - sort of a hospice arrangement I guess -
>and it seems that each time I get there, it has some new, weird contusion
>waiting for me.
>
>The latest and weirdest was as following - - - While doping a block one day,
>(I told you, rebuilding is out of the question), I began hearing creaks,
>groans, popping.  Very scary.  Then I heard what I was sure was a string
>breaking - I was just applying the goop, not tuning you understand.  The lid
>was down with action on top, so I didn't get to check until next visit, when
>I discovered that the string, (bass), was intact, but had come free from the
>hitch pin!  Weird!  I don't know how it could have done this.  Downbearing is
>present.  I had to let the tension down a good bit to get it back on.  I
>think this piano has some houdini like flexibility, and I'll arrive some day
>and find it completely doubled up on itself!.  Any comments?
>
>Lee Brown
Just one ... I hope I never run in to one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                        Greg

P.S. Sorry, I hate silly one line posts like this but I just couldn't
resist!
Greg & Mary Ellen Newell
Greg's Piano Forte'
12970 Harlon Ave.
Lakewood, OH 44107

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