bosendorfer imperial pianos

[Stephen Airy]

A while back i posted a question about a Ricca & Son 37123 with a broken 
string.  That's my piano that I recently got free from a friend -- the 
tuning pins still feel fairly tight & I brought it up to pitch from a 
half-step flat.  It at least needs new strings, dampers, tuning pins, 
keytops, and hammers.  Maybe sometime I can take a few pictures of the 
piano then have them available for me to email to you guys that want them 
(not to the list though).  The case also needs to be redone, but I'll 
probably be sending the piano somewhere to do that.  Sometime I'm thinking 
it would be interesting to use a picture of the piano for an album cover 
(it's a player piano so it has sliding doors on the front panel -- I'm 
thinking it might be cute to put the cat in there and then have her looking 
out the slot in the middle).

At 01:22 PM 11/29/00 -0500, you wrote:
>     Well, in my opinion, if you are going to learn how to rebuild a piano,
>get an old upright for free, provided the pinblock is still good, do
>everything the piano needs.  Even get one that needs new action parts,
>provided you can get them, repair sound board etc.  After you master that do
>the same with a cheep grand.  Youmay not make a lot of money but you'll gain
>a lot of knowledge.  Lynn Rosenberg
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Kristinn Leifsson <istuner@islandia.is>
>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 5:51 AM
>Subject: Re: bosendorfer imperial pianos
>
>
> >
> > Hi Stephen,
> > nice to see some young blood around the geriatrics here,
> >
> > I don´t rebuild pianos, so I don´t feel confident in giving you advice in
> > that.
> >
> >
> > >I often notice that I might be able to get the temperament fairly good in
> > >tune, but there'll often be a stray wildly-beating fifth or two (about
> > >3-5bps near the midrange of the piano)
> >
> > However my dear man, if you have " a wildly beating fifth or two" near the
> > midrange, the temperament is to blame :-)
> > And as things go, if you have a wildly beating fifth, you must have a pure
> > and a reverse fourth, and a pure and a  diabolically fast third...
> >
> > That´s it, it´s like building a house of cards, the foundation has to be
> > "perfect"
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Kristinn
> >
> > P.S. Are you by any chance breaking my youth record here?
> > If thou art younger than 21 we suggest thou vanisheth with utmost haste
> > lest  we shall have to thrash thee! <g>
> >
> >
> >


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