Hello everyone - I just wanted to let everyone know that I will be working on a new photographic journal of a restoration project currently in the shop, and that I will be happy to send out PDF's of the photo sets as they are available to anyone interested. This particular project is a 1910 Steinway upright that was donated to the shop. The purpose of the restoration is three-fold. 1. To provide a opportunity for members of the Central Iowa chapter of the PTG (and anyone else who would care to drop by) to gather one day every other week and tackle a significant restoration job that goes beyond the scope of what many technicians have experience with. 2. To provide photos and ideas for an planned upcoming series in the Piano Technician Journal concerning a side-to-side installation of premium pinblocks in an upright. (Three pinblocks [Bolduc, WNG, and QM5 (offered by Schaff)]are tentatively set for being utilized and featured in the series.) 3. To provide a donation to the Susan Komen Breast Cancer Foundation through the sale of the piano at the completion of the project. The piano will be refinished (by myself) and will have many aspects restored, of course including the pinblock, pins and strings. It will, I'm sure, turn out to be a beautiful instrument. Anyway, the first gathering of chapter members is scheduled for tomorrow. The plan is to remove the strings, pins, plate and the sides to the piano to ready it for the side to side routering out of 1 1/2" of original pinblock material. The article to be written will hopefully (upon final approval by the editors) appear next summer in the Journal. The photo sets, however, will be available from me much sooner. They will have much less text than the Journal article (just captions, really), but far more pictures. Due to the space limitations of articles appearing in the Journal, many pictures must be left out. No good photos will be left out of the photo sets. (You can therefore get a sneak-preview of what may soon be coming down the road in the Journal.) If you would like to begin receiving these photo sets as soon as I make them available, please drop me a note at behmpiano at gmail.com The last photographic journal that I did went out to over 350 technicians around the world. Hopefully, there will be similar interest in this project. My message to beginning technicians, in particular, is that if I can do projects like this, so can you. Life is more fun if you tackle a challenging job once in a while. Makes it fun to get up in the morning. Sincerely, Chuck Behm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101006/745fc2a4/attachment.htm>
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