last minute job

[Kristinn Leifsson]

Monsieur Terry,


Don´t you use a bungee-cord to "tie" the stickers?
I hate it when you have to change a string in an old piano and the bridge
pins for that string just happen to be right behind the keybed so you can´t
reach anything anyway, and the living room doesn´t seem to have any lights
and when it´s in january you don´t even have daylight = long darn time for
a simple thing = makes you feel very amateur

Kristinn Leifsson,
Too warm for a leather jacket, Reykjavík, Iceland



At 20:02 24.5.2000 PDT, you wrote:
>One of the things I like best about being a floor tuner, are the last minute 
>jobs I am asked to perform, like today. (IF you haven't gathered, I'm being 
>sarcastic, ha ha.) I was asked to, "make it sound great, it's going out 
>tomorrow". The "it" the manager was referring to was a pretty old "Strauss & 
>Sons" Spinet. It was grossly out of tune, plate bolts were so loose they 
>were barely holding the plate on, the right front leg was just as loose. 
>Sticking keys galore, tinny, harsh sound in tenor & treble, and as "tubby" 
>as it gets in the bass. sound like a challenge? Oh, did I mention a broken 
>string at B6? This was my biggest problem, because I was not looking forward 
>to disconnecting and tying up ALL the stickers in order to remove the 
>action, so I made the decision to replace the broken string with the action 
>IN! Thanks goodness for my Forceps, which I used to hold the wire on the 
>hitch pin. Thanks to my thin hands, I was able to carefully guide the wire 
>behind the action, and through the bridge pins, up through the pressure bar 
>and so on. It was NOT fun, but was do-able. Total time for entire job: 1 
>hour, 45 min.
>
>Terry Peterson
>Los Angeles, CA
>Associate Member, PTG
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