---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment --=====================_53641875==.ALT At 09:25 PM 5/1/2003, you wrote: >I am working with a customer who uses their piano for teaching and=20 >recitals.I have recommended a new pinblock, new strings,dampers,new shanks= =20 >and flanges. > >What effect do worn hammers (filed almost to the wood in the treble=20 >section) have on touch and tone in a Steinway grand piano? Well, I'm tempted to say not a lot because the S7S hammer is supposed to be= =20 jucied up until it's much like wood and the voiced (needled) down from=20 there. This was from John Patton (?) at Steinway. Nevertheless, no meat=20 left cannot possibly give good controllable sound. > >When replacing a set of hammers would you also replace the shanks and= flanges? Most definitely unless, of course, you don't care what the regulation comes= =20 out like. > >The tuning pins have been replaced with 6/0 pins.The torque is from 20=20 >inch pounds and jumping in the bass to 60 inch pounds in the treble.the=20 >torque is uneven. > >There students are advanced and require a good touch and tone.I need to=20 >present this to a committee please help with your coments and suggestions. This part is very important. DO NOT submit a proposal if you can avoid it=20 and instead present your ideas to the committee in person. You can't=20 possibly depend on someone else to impart all that you want to say through= =20 their lips. It NEVER works that way. Have something written out but only=20 provide it once you have a positive answer from them. If you give them a=20 proposal they use that info to shop around on you making you an unpaid=20 consultant. Find what their major complaints are. Let them talk about how=20 bad it bugs them a bit and then offer, verbally, solutions after (AFTER)=20 you have a sense for whether they are willing to put forth the money to do= =20 something about it. DON'T be an unpaid consultant! You may become their=20 hero and their "go to" person when they need advice but they'll always find= =20 someone to do the job cheaper. my 2 cents > >Thank you > >--- > >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >Version: 6.0.474 / Virus Database: 272 - Release Date: 4/18/2003 Greg Newell Greg's piano Fort=E9 mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net=20 --=====================_53641875==.ALT An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/56/2b/35/d0/attachment.htm --=====================_53641875==.ALT-- ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment --- Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.474 / Virus Database: 272 - Release Date: 4/18/2003 ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment--
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