Del, As you know, the pinblock is not the only unusual part of a K&B restoration. What are you doing about the action? Are you rebuilding the original wippens or have you found someone who makes them? By the way, good luck in regulation! (Whew - been there, done that) All the best, Rich Galassini Cunningham Piano Company (215) 991-0834 It has long puzzled me why piano makers would go to such extremes when designing and fitting pinblocks. Brinsmead is not alone in this. We're working on a Kranich & Bach piano just now with another unnecessarily complex pinblock design. This thing has four separate twisted and convoluted levels -- each of which must be carefully fitted to a mating offset in the plate. These were not particularly great or expensive pianos yet constructing and fitting this pinblock clearly wasted considerable time and effort. Del Delwin D Fandrich Piano Design & Manufacturing Consultant 620 South Tower Avenue Centralia, Washington 98531 USA Phone 360.736-7563 <mailto:fandrich at pianobuilders.com> -----Original Message----- From: Delwin D Fandrich <fandrich at pianobuilders.com> To: 'Pianotech List' <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 2:59 pm Subject: RE: Major Surgery It has long puzzled me why piano makers would go to such extremes when designing and fitting pinblocks. Brinsmead is not alone in this. We're working on a Kranich & Bach piano just now with another unnecessarily complex pinblock design. This thing has four separate twisted and convoluted levels -- each of which must be carefully fitted to a mating offset in the plate. These were not particularly great or expensive pianos yet constructing and fitting this pinblock clearly wasted considerable time and effort. Del Delwin D Fandrich Piano Design & Manufacturing Consultant 620 South Tower Avenue Centralia, Washington 98531 USA Phone 360.736-7563 <mailto:fandrich at pianobuilders.com> | -----Original Message----- | From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org | [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of John Delacour | Sent: March 28, 2008 2:20 PM | To: Pianotech List | Subject: Major Surgery | | | Gluttons for punishment might like to see how to prepare for | the re-stringing of an old grand piano: | | <http://pianomaker.co.uk/brinsmead_24130/> | | JD | | -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080329/ebe54ae4/attachment.html
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