large uprights

[Meyer Carl]

John:  It has been traditional to encourage blind persons to become piano
tuners.  Your post is the best argument I've heard to include deaf persons.

Carl Meyer
Santa Clara, Ca.


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Musselwhite" <john@musselwhite.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: large uprights


> At 09:41 AM 11/17/2000 -0800, Del wrote:
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> >I can find no rational excuse for continuing to build spinet pianos.
> >Regardless of the length of their bass strings.  (I still haven't figured
> >out why they were introduced in the first place.)
>
> They are smaller (lower anyway) and don't overpower a small room either
> visually or aurally, they are lighter and easier to move, especially to
> walk-up apartments and choir masters can see and direct over them.
>
> I'm just off to "tune" one now... a 40 year-old mahogany plywood
> soundboarded Canadian spinet that until last summer had dried-out old foam
> rubber instead of cloth on the back rail, hammer rail, spring rail and
> let-off rail and the kids had already taken 4 years of lessons on it. It's
> a "family heirloom" and it's all they can afford so we have to do what we
> have to do... which in my case includes wearing my ER-15 earplugs while
> tuning it.
>
>                  John
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> John Musselwhite, RPT    -     Calgary, Alberta Canada
> http://www.musselwhite.com  http://canadianpianopage.com/calgary
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