CA & Motivation was A nice thank you from a customer

[Alan]

It does help, doesn't it!

I have some wonderful clients who live way out in the country, 6 kids,
homeschool, really nice people. Anyway, they are Christian marriage,
sex, and life counselors and have published a really fine book (I'll
post the website address here in case anyone wants to peek at the book
and pictures of these folks http://www.christian-living.com/).

When they were first married, they found an Otto Grau miniature piano
(serial 160659, age ???, about 4'6" tall, notes from C2 to C7). It has
sentimental value to them but the pinblock was shot, shot, shot. I had
been shimmining individual pins, a few of the worst ones remaining on
each tuning, but the other day I laid the piano down and poured about 6
oz of CA into that puppy. There are communicating cracks between pins
because I could "dope" about a dozen at a time--pour it in one hole and
watch it fill up all the surrounding ones.

I didn't have the greatest hope. Anyway, let it dry overnight and now
measure about 60 in. lbs. in those pins! In tuning it, I was VERY
careful to tune down slightly before pulling up to pitch--you have to
break any glue-slop off those coils or the stings will go, DAMHIK. Some
of those pins (including, natch, the ones I'd shimmed) were so tight I
could barely move them.

Because of this and several other experiences, I have become a BIG
believer in the CA treatment. I don't enjoy doing it, however, what with
the vapors and the fact that I can't seem to complete any job without
gluing some part of my anatomy to a tool or the piano! Ha.

Anyway, when I finished the job, they paid me a $25 bonus over my bill
and gave me a copy of their book with this inscription: "Thanks for
sharing your gift with us and helping us restore a piece of our history
though our little piano. We appreciate you! May God continue to richly
bless you ... " etc.

Nice. One of these goes a long way to make life seem worthwhile, does it
not?

Alan R. Barnard
Salem, MO


-----Original Message-----
From: Hechler Family [mailto:dahechler@charter.net] 
Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 10:38 PM
To: pianotech
Subject: A nice thank you from a customer




-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	[DISCUSS] Thank You
Date: 	Sat, 5 Jun 2004 16:39:13 -0500
From: 	Bill Bronson <gusukube@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
Reply-To: 	discuss@sluug.org
To: 	<discuss@sluug.org>



Hi Duane,
    I had a concert pianist stop by to visit, and he greatly 
complimented the tuning job you did on my Cable piano. That instrument 
has never sounded better, and continues to draw compliments from people 
who are better equipped than me to make that judgment. Thanks again for 
your fine work.
 
Bill Bronson

-- 
Duaine Hechler
Piano, Player Piano, Organ, Pump Organ
Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding
Associate Member of the Piano Technicians Guild
Reed Organ Society Member
St. Louis, MO 63034
(314) 838-5587
dahechler@charter.net


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