James Thanks for the update. It is always good to hear the results of a rather unorthodox repair. My big questions, and/or concern, is how did you flip the piano over and back? You probably told us about that 6 months ago, but I forgot. Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician Mililani, Oahu, HI 808-349-2943 Author of: The Business of Piano Tuning available from Potter Press www.pianotuning.com -----Original Message----- From: James Johnson <jhjpiano at sbcglobal.net> To: toddpianoworks at att.net; pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 2:29 pm Subject: [pianotech] upside down CA job report About 6 months ago I shared my experience of treating a grand pin block from the bottom with the piano upside down.? I had previously treated it from the top, but because of the plate bushings, I didn't get good enough penetration to make much of a difference. Anyway, today I returned to do the 6 month tuning and I'm happy to report that the piano is holding well and all the pins feel quite good.? If I didn't know that the pin block had been treated, I probably wouldn't have noticed that the pins felt different than any other older piano.? I would definately consider using this technique again if circumstances warranted it.? The piano, a Harrington grand, was not worth doing any major rebuilding, nor could the customer have afforded it anyway.? This process saved the piano for what I hope will be a number of years, and for this customer's use, it worked out well. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090406/a3587b02/attachment.html>
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