Very interesting question--

[Robin Stevens]

 Hi Don,

The Mayer's piano was a job I did many years before I had heard about CA
glue. I did do a similar Chinese piano this two weeks ago that had untunable
pins and was down 100 cents. I applied about 6 ozs of CA glue with the piano
on it's back and when standing it up it was able to be raised the 100 cents.
Because the piano is only 5 minutes from my home I retuned it yesterday
finding the pitch had dropped 10-40 cents. I did not use RCT overpull the
first tuning but did yesterday after feeling happy with the pin block. I am
going back in a couple of weeks to do a fine tune.
The CA treatment saved this piano from being pushed into a corner and never
played by the elderly lady.

regards
Robin
 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: Don
Date: 01/31/07 12:13:19
To: Pianotech List
Subject: Re: Very interesting question--
 
Hi Robin,
 
Maybe this Chinese piano would benefit from a CA treatment?
 
At 10:27 AM 1/31/2007 +1030, you wrote:
>John the Chinese pianos of that era were notorious for having VERY bad pin
>blocks. A lot of the owners of these pianos at the time were given their
money
>back by the retailer because of the untunable pin blocks. The symptom was,
when
>pulling the string up and taking your hand off the Lever the pin would spin
>back!!!! and you say to pull it up 100 cents? sheeesh!
 
>Robin Stevens>1/30/2007 9:31 AM
Regards,
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