Jon, Yes, and by this tale hang many, many others. If, somehow, some critical part of a person's anatomy grew more painful as the condition of their piano got worse, I suspect we'd all have a good deal more business. Not much way to compete with Hard Drive envy. Best. Horace At 07:12 AM 3/11/97 -0500, you wrote: >> But, every good regulation has to begin somewhere, >>and it might as well be checking out the bedding. >>Horace > >It's always best to lay a good foundation. From there, everything >is more stable. >As with the estimate I gave for a loud, cumbersome grand action >the other day. Aside from getting the hammers aligned and filed >the root of the problem was heavy hammers. Having explained >this to the woman, she then got her husband to approve the >expenditure. But he was reluctant and just wanted to soften >the hammers and do a light regulation to improve let-off, etc. >I said that could be done, but . . .explaining how things were >interconnected, he said he'd think about it. >Of course he doesn't play. His wife was a little disappointed >as he just purchased his toy (computer upgrade). >I had a similar thing happen where the wife's piano needed (still needs) >a lot of work but the husband (non-player) is unwilling to invest. >Her comment was: "Now, if it were the boat. . ." > >Now that is a problem which is repeating. > >Jon Page >Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net) >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > Horace Greeley Stanford University email: hgreeley@leland.stanford.edu voice mail: 415.725.9062 LiNCS help line: 415.725.4627
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