tone sustain

[Roger Jolly]

Well said Les.  Roger


At 03:24 PM 27/09/98 -0400, you wrote:
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>On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Avery Todd wrote:
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>> Hi Les,
>> 
>>    I'm going to "step in it" here and agree with both of you. I totally
>> agree with what you said but if Frank DOES decide to have another go at it
>> in spite of what you said :-), I agree with Susan. It's a great, legitimate
>> way of getting those concrete type of hammers down to a reasonable level
>> with killing yourself and the hammer by digging holes in them with needles.
>> And that's about all needling would accomplish.
>>    I hate it when I have to agree with two people on the same post. :-)
>> 
>
>Hi, Avery:
>
>My post had absolutely NOTHING to do with steamimg as an approach to
>dealing with  rock-hard hammers and EVERYTHING to do with dealers
>cutting overhead to the bone by selling disgracefully-prepped pianos to
>the uninformed and foolishly trusting piano-buyer, leaving the daunt-
>ing task of making these pianos right--which was HIS responsibility
>in the first place-- to someone else. Further, when a competent
>piano-techncian encounters such a piano and gives its owner an estimate
>of what it will cost to do all the work that should have been done by
>the dealer, but never was, the customer blames the TECHNICIAN for price-
>gouging. After all, how can the piano possibly need that much work? Its
>brand new!!! Actually, acting, or rather NOT acting, out of ignorance,
>the instrument is now 2,3, or more years old and its problems--original-
>ly bad enough--are now greatly compounded. 
>
>I long ago ceased to have to take every job that came my way. I was busy
>enough that I could choose which pianos I took on and which ones I didn't.
>In a case like this one, I would not, but simply refer the owner back to
>the dealer from whom he bought the piano originally and let him deal with
>the problems which were of his making. From the way Frank describes him,
>the owner of this piano and the dealer deserve each other! There are
>plenty of fine-quality, meticulously-maintained pianos out there, owned
>by people who know the importance of, entrust their care to, and fully
>appreciate the value of, a first-class piano-technician. In all
>inhumility, those are the ones I chose to work for. You should, too!
>
>Les Smith   
>
>PS As far as hammer-steaming goes, it's obvious from all the fine
>technicians on this list who advocate its use, that it is a valid
>approach to dealing with the rock-hard hammers which one encounnters
>so frequently these days. In the case above, the DEALER may want to try
>steaming this piano's hammers, as well as doing all the other work it
>obviously needs. ls
> 
Roger Jolly
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