Moving from Uprights to Grands

[Michael Gamble]

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Good points there, Richard, there are certainly a lot of idiosyncratic =
design aspects in so many pianos - and many of them are shared. That =
Broadwood desk removal is a beaut though isn't it? Then there's the old =
Bluthner desk with the candle boards that suddenly slide forward with a =
crash as the desk is removed - quite scary to the uninitiated! The =
Chappell concert grands of the early 20th century share with Bechsteins =
the little touch sticker connected via a centre pin in a rocking =
adjustable block attached to the keys - meaning the upper action doesn't =
come away from the keyboard without every single key being =
disconnected.... etc. etc.
Maybe there's room for a special posting for these idiosyncratic gems!
Regards from a sunny sunset in The Village
Michael G.(UK)
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  Hi Michael & List,
  First of all, my apologies for sounding a bit 'priggish' over the =
muting strip business.  But it really is an issue here.  As Michael =
points out these things are discussed in the PTA conventions, and I =
imagine it is a brave 'tested' member of PTA who admits to using =
temperament muting.
  Another learning curve certainly involves first visiting grand pianos =
as a novice tuner.  Yet another situation of being thown in a the deep =
end sometimes.  I vividly remember my first experience, on my own, =
trying to replace a S&S pedal lyre with the owner watching!  Another =
situation was being unable to remove the music desk from an older =
Broadwood grand because I hadn't been told about the hidden little notch =
in the runners.  The tiny (sometimes almost invisible) screws holding =
the key fall into its slots can be another pitfall for the novice too.  =
I think that all technicians' training programmes should have a module =
on all the common piano makes with idiosyncratic design aspects.

  Ric
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