Today I saw a creative repair on a piano, that more or less backfired. A technician had attached rubber bands to the back of the fallboard and the backcheck to help pull the hammer back on three notes where the return springs had broken. I guess when the rubber bands were first put on, they were working with the fall board open. But after many years of the fall board being closed, the rubber bands stretched to the point to where they were no longer strong enough to pull the hammer back. In fact one of them had broken. In addition to those three broken return springs, by now there were another dozen or so springs that were broken, half the hammers had unglued moldings, and there were three broken strings. Needles to say, the customer didn't want to spend the money on the "free" piano she got from her neighbor Wim -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20120621/a5204a30/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: creative repair.JPG Type: image/pjpeg Size: 65521 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20120621/a5204a30/attachment-0001.bin>
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