This is one of the pianos for which I write "SNR" (still needs rebuilt) on the card after the tuning date. It's a dead Baldwin L in daily use in a teaching studio of one of the colleges I tune for. For fifteen years, I've watched the hammers get flatter along with the soundboard. Depressing as that is, there is one strangely entertaining thing about this piano. A short length of pencil lead is migrating around in the habitation layer of accumulated dust on the soundboard. Every visit, I look to see where the lead has gotten to since last time, or if the dust has finally won and buried it. Like the "racetrack" rocks in Death Valley, I've never seen it move, but it's in slightly different places every visit, and the tracks show the limits of where it's been. I know, it's pretty lame as far as entertainment goes, but I think it's kind of cute. In contrast to tuning those unmaintained and mostly non functional pianos every year, this is high drama. The ultimate cheap date, Ron N -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: traveling lead.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 413519 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090918/bae2a349/attachment-0001.jpg>
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