Good! At least you didn't ask me to do the class! Really just a fleeting thought (to have the class - not give it), but it could be fun! Regarding attendance, I've gone to the last few nationals (SO, SO TOTALLY AWSOME). I went to NC Regional last month after promising my wife that if I went to NC, I would skip Reno next summer. I know her memory is not THAT good! Time will tell. I'll test the waters in a few months. I certainly WANT to go. Oops, gotta go, I hear her footsteps! :-) Terry Farrell Piano Tuning & Service Tampa, Florida mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan L. Gilreath, RPT" <agilreath@mindspring.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 9:09 AM Subject: RE: Jasper American Piano > Terry, > > Laura Olsen is the Institute Director or Reno this year. We try to keep an > eye on all of the great ideas that flit across the list and we'll certainly > take it under consideration. > > Are you going to attend if we run this? <grin> > > Allan > Allan L. Gilreath, RPT > Assistant Director - TEAM20001 > July 11-15, 2001 - Reno, NV > agilreath@mindspring.com > http://www.ptg.org/conv.htm > Director: Laura Olsen, RPT > Assistant Directors: Allan Gilreath, RPT - Gary Neie, RPT - Dale Probst, RPT > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf > Of Farrell > Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 8:33 AM > To: pianotech@ptg.org > Subject: Re: Jasper American Piano > > > > "Instead of the high flight tune-offs between Coleman & Smith, the > > ultimate PTG challenge might have been having a couple of our > > superstars each uncrate one of those puppies, and after a frenzy of > > string seating and hammer needling, see what they could turn them > > into." > > Now that is an interesting thought. Give 'em maybe four to eight hours - > anything goes - and see what they can do. I'll bet a GREAT EDUCATIONAL > DIVIDEND would result. Are you reading this Dale Probst??? Who is running > the show in Reno this year??? Are you reading this??? Is this an idea or > what? Anything to increase the tolerability of some of these offensive > little critters. > > Terry Farrell > Piano Tuning & Service > Tampa, Florida > mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "J Patrick Draine" <draine@mediaone.net> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org> > Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 7:55 AM > Subject: Re: Jasper American Piano > > > > >In a message dated 11/21/00 10:38:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, > > >mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com writes: > > > > > >>Anyone ever hear of a Jasper American Piano? I tuned a 42" console today > > >>that was reported to be about 5 years old. It had the name of a local > small > > >>time piano dealer bolted/nailed/screwed/glued to the plate and to the > > >>fallboard. > > > > > >The Parent corporation of Kimball is Jasper American Inc. This name was > used > > >to provide "exclusive" dealerships to more than one dealer in a given > area. > > > > > >Its a Kimball. > > > > > > > In other words, Jaspers were the extraordinarily low ball "loss > > leader" units that dealers could have their own name plates on -- and > > of course these units invariably had "zero prep" (at least in my > > slight experience with them). > > Instead of the high flight tune-offs between Coleman & Smith, the > > ultimate PTG challenge might have been having a couple of our > > superstars each uncrate one of those puppies, and after a frenzy of > > string seating and hammer needling, see what they could turn them > > into. With a new set of bass strings ( I don't know whether a > > rescaling would improve the situation, but the quality of the sets > > were often very poor) -- perhaps replace the "fake buckskin" with > > real buckskin, etc. one might have a spinet or console you wouldn't > > mind retuning annually (well, *maybe*). > > Just a thought, > > Patrick > > > > >
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