I'll be tuning it this Tues., after returning the action, which I had to take to the shop; Nearly EVERY moving part was so "frozen", and to make matters worse, the old dreaded plastic flange-on hammers, wipps, dampers...luckily, they are in a pretty well preserved state. Most likely because no heater bar was ever used as in many old spinets. For the tight bushings I used water/alcohol, then after 24 hrs. to dry thoroughly, lubed with nap/silicone. Did the trick very well. Terry Peterson ----Original Message Follows---- From: Piannaman@aol.com Reply-To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org> To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Re: Lester spinet-wound tri Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 21:39:54 EDT In a message dated 6/29/03 2:44:01 PM Pacific Daylight Time, pianolover88@hotmail.com writes: > First time I've ever seen wound TRI-chords on a little spinet! starts at C3 > up to G3, if I remember right. Seen 'em on Grands, but never on a spinet, > esp. a Lester, circa 1946. Is this kinda rare? Aren't they fun to "tune?" They are the only strings of this genre that I ever recall seeing on a spin-it piano. I don't know that I've ever seen any on an upright, either. Dave Stahl _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
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