Our mission is to raise standards by improving ourselves and promote awareness of a sometimes illusive "standard". I wonder if I am amiss in my duty to avoid facing a technician.....Would anyone bother persuing this? Client has a $5000 rebuild job done on a 6" Hientzman. (Canadian$) Nice shims. Strings,pins.hmmm... Action does not work. Client complained and the "store" had $1000 of regulation done under consultation with yet another "technician" to "fix it"....I have no idea what was done. I was called in for a second opinion. I charged aprox. $500 Canadian to improve what I found as follows...... 1) Able hammers with massive rectangular tails glued on out of the box, no attempt at tail shaping. I shaped them. Absolutely no repetition spring action, tails too heavy....now they work. 2)Drop screws turned ALL the way up, so the rep. lever would lift the hammer at least 1/4 to 1/2 inch above the string level if they could have. 3) New rollers, some glued on at 30 to 40 degree angles, I reglued about dozen or so. 4) Hammer strike line crooked in top half of piano. I did not start removing and regluing hammers. Nothing regular about the "regulation" at all, At least now the hammers don't look like the rocky mountains, and there is now let-off,drop,rep. springs, and even checking, burned in shanks so they are at least strait up and down. Leveled some string (really opened up the bass), taped some sting ,little bit of voicing in the top end, lube things a bit. Sounds much, much better. Could do more fitting of hammers to strings. 5) Nothing done to dampers/pedals...noisy. 6) Should have had new pinblock...new pins are at different hights, some flush with plate to compensate. In all about 5 hrs in shop & 7 hours in home, plus transport of action. What has me somewhat amazed is that a $5000 bill was collected followed by a $1000 "service". Forget being fussy, as far as I'm concerned it actually did not even work. They did bother to repin all the flanges.... good and tight. Lets remind ourselves not to be too shy to ask for help....there is lots left to learn. Cheers Dave Renaud RPT _______________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca
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