Joseph Alkana wrote: > Thanks ric! I'm back to tuning pianos about half time after the heart > attacks. Guess I'll just drift into retirement and work as much as I > want to and not sweat the pressure of full days. It was hard moving > out of our house of 20 years and losing the shop I had, though. I'm > back to doing key bushings on the kitchen table again! > I can relate to the sense of loss for sure... but then on the other hand..... doing actions on the kitchen table brings back a lot of fond memories :) In anycase, a big smile lite up on my face to see your post come up. Glad you are back in the swing of things. > You got me to thinking that a piano I service has a weird springy feel > at the very end of the key stroke. I think I missed that one as a > problem with the stop rail being too close toward the dampers. It's > hard to feel problems in an upright key due to the damper pick-up by > the spoon, vague let-off feel, back check engaging too soon. Even > harder to see the problems in slow motion, as what you see isn't what > you experience in real time speed. Does that mean I should just > service grands? :-) > Grands are much cooler regardless :) Nice work if you can get it. I've had a stretch of 7-8 years now with mostly grands... knock on wood. But my kitchen table and my upright rack are handy anytime I need them. Cheers RicB
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