Puzzler???

[Tom Driscoll]

Kohler? Tom Driscoll
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@KSCABLE.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 12:56 AM
Subject: Puzzler???


> It's a spinet, belonging to a piano teacher. The low tenor sounds like
> something somewhere between a dobro and a cigar box banjo. Hammer
alignment
> to strings not purely serendipitous, but mostly just nearly in the
> ballpark. Last tuned in 1989. Lots of loose pins, "snappy" but just barely
> (or not) holding string tension, as if the block had been oiled. Treble
> gloriously wild, with tuning by least bad criteria in effect, and the best
> you could expect. Quarter semitone+ pitch raise after re-mounting the
> letoff rail on the brackets and tightening the screws, which was the
reason
> for the service call in the first place since the blocking hammers
> coincidentally corresponded with the young-un spilling a drink on the
music
> desk and fallboard. None of this so far differentiates this from any other
> poor misbegotten pianoid wraith, but it boasted (?) the claim to
> "Ori-Coustic" tone on the fallboard.
>
> What is it? (besides that) And what the heck is an Ori-Coustic?
>
>
> Ron N