I will categorically confirm your curmudgeonliness. anon ----- Original Message ---- From: Delwin D Fandrich fandrich at pianobuilders.com What? You think I'm nuts? I'm just doing the block, board and bridges. That's enough weirdness for me. Perhaps I'm just getting curmudgeonly in my advancing year but I no longer do stuff like that. The technician who sent me the job is doing all of the action and damper work. And he's welcome to it. ddf From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of voce88 at aol.com Sent: March 29, 2008 12:38 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: Major Surgery 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 | | Planning your summer road trip? Check out AOL Travel Guides. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080329/0c2944e0/attachment.html
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