an e-mail I received about pianos

[pianotune05]

I received an interesting e-mail today.  Did everyone receive this e-mail or just me?  I've never even heard of this.  If not, then these folks must have found me on an online ad I had promoting  my piano tuning.  What do you guys think?  I'm not a dealer, but maybe someone out there is and has heard of this.
                 
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Remarque : message transféré en pièce jointe.
----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Owen Greyling 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 6:49 AM
  Subject: pin block repacement


  Hello list,

   

  I have a question regarding a procedure for removing a Hardman pin block. I have replaced blocks before, but this one appears to have been installed using a slightly different technique. While being doweled and glued to the inner rim shelf, there is also a mortise or rabbet under the stretcher that the pin block material is let into. The veneer on the front of the stretcher at each end, leads me to suspect that the block / stretcher were originally installed as a unit. Not really wanting to remove the stretcher, I'm wondering if I could simply cut the block out in the normal fashion (router and big bit), leaving the part of the old block that is under the stretcher intact and gluing the new block to that. This is complicated by the presence of a large cove cut in the bottom of the block / stretcher for fallboard clearance.  I'm hoping that some one has done this before, and can offer a procedure that has worked in the past.

   

  Thanks for any help at all,

   

  Owen (Kingston, Ontario, Canada)

   
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