[pianotech] CA pinblock with tight bushings

Susan Kline skline at peak.org
Mon Feb 14 23:49:21 MST 2011


On 2/14/2011 6:39 PM, Mike Spalding wrote:
> Good grief!  I guess there's more of the back story that you need to 
> know here.  This is  a performance piano, it gets tuned frequently, 
> but not by me.  Their regular tuner is a skilled "full service" 
> technician who chooses not to get involved in CA juicing, and calls me 
> instead.  I don't have the luxury of knowing ahead of time which pins 
> are too loose, and which ones are acceptable.  So I do them all.  My 
> respirator prevents liver pickling.  I find that setting up, and 
> cleaning up afterward take about half the total time, so juicing fewer 
> pins wouldn't reduce my time very much.

Ah. You're being contracted for the job by someone else, for a single 
service. Totally different situation, absolutely, than being able to 
work on a few notes during routine visits.

Understood.

Susan


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