---------- > From: ralph m martin <rmartin30@juno.com> > To: pianotech@ptg.org > Subject: Re: Laughead Piano: Anybody Heard of It? > Date: Friday, September 19, 1997 12:42 PM > > Hi Rich > > You're dead right! I DON'T pound in a tuning. But in the case of the > spinet in question, I wasn't "tooting" (at least not where you could hear > it) my own horn. All my tunings are not as stable as this one. I have no > explanation for it...it just STAYS!?? Grettings Ralph Of course you realize my comments about tooting your horn were tongue in cheek. Boy what a mess this must be for our translating techs. : ) However then you must agree that you get to a point where you know the pin is set by feel and hearing, so the test blows become more and more supurflous. (scuse me superfluous) In other words if each tuning you do is to be someway better, and this has been going on for twenty years or longer, THEN it STAYS!!!. (execpt for that dinky little Wurtilizer spinet whose plate bolts got loose in 15 years)(that had been sitting next to the heat register) Richard Amideadrightorhalfright Moody Once in a great while I come across a dinky little Wurlitzer spinet that > the customer says hasn't been tuned in 15 years and am frankly amazed > that it is within reach with one tuning??? > > Ah well.....you were half right, Rich! > \ > regards > Ralph > On Fri, 19 Sep 1997 00:29:28 -0500 "Richard Moody " > <remoody@easnetsd.com> writes: > > >
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