David, I would be very interested in knowing whether this work was done by a local technician, or whether this piano was out-sourced to some company to have the work done. I am not interested in the name of the technician, if it was an individual who performed the work. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Renaud" <drjazzca@yahoo.ca> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 8:22 PM Subject: "Standards" stranded in isolation > 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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