[pianotech] O.T. - Epic kludges

Gerald Groot tunerboy3 at comcast.net
Sat Jan 23 21:01:56 MST 2010


Don't forget to charge for finding the pencil....  

-----Original Message----- 
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Ron Nossaman 
Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 11:02 PM 
To: pianotech at ptg.org 
Subject: Re: [pianotech] O.T. - Epic kludges 

John Formsma wrote: 
> Wow! Pathetic! 
> 
> Did you see the piano "repair"? A sharp was missing, so someone glued a 
> pencil in its place? I forget what page it was on ... pretty far down 
> the list. 

Amateur! I found a fix once where someone had electrical taped 
a piece of cardboard to a back check. The jack and flange was 
missing altogether, and the cardboard served as a catcher 
lever/ramp to, sort of, eventually, pry the assembly forward 
so the hammer would more or less strike the string. A wonder 
to behold! I was kind of impressed, in a "had to have been 
there" sort of way. 

Ron N 



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