Knew the subject line would lure you in ... Here's how Jesse French and I celebrated Earth Day: removing the old finish, reducing the piano's weight by half, tweaking certain noses, and putting badly needed carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The most fun moment was pushing it over: Wham! Interesting observations: Many of the plain wire strings snapped right at the speaking-side bridge pin as they got hot -- all that broke, broke at that same place (more tension in speaking segment?). Somewhere late in the game, as the pinblock area was burning (took a loooong time), the plate broke. I was not too far away and it was scary loud: Bang! I am reminded of the customer who's Kawai grand burned completely in a house fire; he asked me did I want to salvage any of the parts, perhaps the strings? Uh, no thanks. I did salvage some action pieces (stickers and whippens) and all the hardware, especially screws, I could reasonably get to. They don't now make hardware with a tenth of the quality of this 90-year-old stuff. Alan Barnard Salem, MO P.S. If anyone is bothered by my sooty footprints, email me privately and I'll tell you a little secret. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080429/996e0a50/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpg Size: 22384 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080429/996e0a50/attachment.jpg
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