Dopey Tuning, because they didn't use GARFIELDS

[Farrell]

Well..........ah.........I find myself somewhat speechless. A voice from the
wilderness. I'm always looking for a better mousetrap. Has anyone else ever
tried GARFIELDS tuning pin tightener? What has the experience been? So
Richard....let me guess.....you think GARFIELDS works well?

;-)

Terry Farrell
Piano Tuning & Service
Tampa, Florida
mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Moody" <remoody@midstatesd.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2000 2:12 AM
Subject: Re: Dopey Tuning, because they didn't use GARFIELDS


> That's it in a nut shell.   Someone who didn't know what they were doing
> slopped in some "quick goo".    But had they used GARFIELDS they wouldn't
> have had the black tarry looking goop even if they slopped on GARFIELDS.
> Because GARFIELDS is a clear(ish) liquid and certainly doesn't stain or
mar
> the pin, bushing or plate.  And GARFIELDS is long lasting because it is
> designed to draw moisture from the air back into the pin block, in other
> words GARFIELDS works over the years to keep moisture in the block.  I
tuned
> a piano last month I had put GARFIELDS on   SIX YEARS ago and they are
> tighter now than then.
>     GARFIELDS takes about 10 minutes to apply.  The piano should be tilted
> or laid on its back.  This is an inconveince some say but we are paid
> professionals and this must be done for GARFIELDS to work best, and
> GARFIELDS is the best working tuning pin tightener PERIOD.   Some say
> LUNDSFORDS but it is twice as expensive and can leave dark stains if used
by
> a slop artist.  Some say Crazy Glue (CA) but that gets expensive, and its
> long term effects have not been determined, and may be detrimental if the
> strings have to be let down as in bridge repairs.  Some say thin Epoxy or
> heated Epoxy, but in my opinion if Garfields doesn't work CA or Epoxy are
at
> best a patch job only reasonable to save the clunker from the dump.  Ask
> yourself this question, if GARFIELDS will work, why am I using something
> else??
>     One final note, if you are using a tuning pin tightener other than
> GARFIELDS you are not using GARFIELDS, and no respectible technician
should
> stake his reputation on anything else but GARFIELDS.  Of course there may
be
> a piano that won't respond after the second  treatment 10 days later.  But
> it hasn't happened yet, at least in 25 years.   Well one time Lundsfords
did
> stop a pin in a bar piano that I had put GARFIELDS on a week earlier, but
> that piano had more drinks spilled in it than it was worth, every year.
>     So if you haven't tried GARFIELDS you don't know what tuning pin
> tightener is about.   You will be pleasantly surprised.  Oh and if you are
> surprised that the price of GARFIELDS went up one dollar, that is because
as
> of this posting I now get $1 for every bottle sold from all 3 supply
houses.
> ; )   ---ric
>
>