Haines Bros. sq. grand./1880 ?

[Carl Teplitski]

Absolutely tongue in cheek.  Thanks for your observations and opinion.

Carl

Clyde Hollinger wrote:

> Carl,
>
> Is your reference to "wonderful instrument" tongue in cheek?  :-)  My
> impression is that most techs wouldn't refer to *any* square grand as a
> wonderful instrument.  They're pretty, though.
>
> I can't make any further observations about square grands, since I never
> worked on one and never intend to.  As far as the CA treatment goes, my
> results with it have been so-so.  It usually seems to do some good, but not
> always, and sometimes not very much.  But I might be too cautious in how
> much I use, because I don't want to overdo it.  I used a whole bottle on an
> old upright once, and they got way too tight.  But I talked with another guy
> who used two bottles (2 oz.) on a piano before he noticed any improvement.
>
> Did you try tapping the pins a little deeper, if there's enough room on the
> pins below the coils to do that?  Be sure to brace the pinblock, of course.
> I suggest that because I did that once on a 1974 Kawai grand.  I tried
> tapping a few of the loose pins, just enough to see some movement downwards,
> and they felt like a new piano!  So I did them all.  But your piano has a
> much worse case of loose pins than this one did.
>
> Regards,
> Clyde
>
> Carl Teplitski wrote:
>
> > Today I went to see if I could improve this wonderful instrument.
> > Customer said that the pins were OK because the piano has been
> > kept up alright. This 24 year old fellow, very bright, works in the film
> >
> > industry locally, bought this piano for $1200.00 . Well , the pins were
> > so
> > loose I thought I might be able to turn with my fingers. Absolutely
> > brutal
> > piano. Tried to tune a little, but a little was all you could do. Spoke
> > to
> > an RPT friend locally, and I suggested that this might be a good
> > candidate
> > for a CA treatment. He thought I should stear clear of it altogether.
> > Probably
> > good advice. The dampers were very ineffective. Wondered if  a V type
> > damper
> > would work somewhat better ??  Curious as to what the list members
> > think.
> >
> > Carl / Winnipeg
> >
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