something new everyday from Bill P

[Bill Peterson2]

Hi Bruce, This is a clever repair.  Bill P
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoff Sykes" <thetuner at ivories52.com>
To: "'Pianotech List'" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 9:38 PM
Subject: RE: something new everyday


Hi Phil --

Since the subject of bad repairs has been broached, I would like to share
this beautiful bass string (A1) splice I found in a 1983 Kawai CX-4 upright.
It appears that the person on whom the string broke flipped it around,
unwound the hitch pin loop in order to get enough plain wire to make it
cleanly to the tuning pin, (I should have photographed that as well because
it looked like it had been eaten by pliers), then made the beautiful splice,
shown in the attached photo, at the bottom so nobody would see it.
Surprisingly it actually holds pitch. I can imagine the panic this person
was feeling at the time, and the relief when the "splice" actually held. I
pointed the "repair" out to the customer and suggested that replacing the
string in the near future would probably be a good idea.

-- Geoff Sykes
-- Los Angeles





-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Phil Bondi
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 7:48 PM
To: Newtonville
Subject: something new everyday


Hi all.

I saw a repair today I have never seen before:

A4 - missing damper spring on a console. What
this person did was rig a wire from the hammer
spring rail to the butt end of the hammer. I
guess it was too much trouble to pull the damper
assembly out and replace the spring..and no, it
wasn't a plastic flange!

-Phil Bondi(Fl)

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