[pianotech] New photographic journal available soon.

[Scott Gray]

  Chuck,

I'm always interested to see your Journals.  The first ones were 
fantastic!..  I'll write your email below to get on the list.



Scott Gray
RSG Piano Service



On 10/6/2010 5:45 PM, Chuck Behm wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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 
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