[pianotech] Birdcage piano for David Boyce

[tnrwim at aol.com]

David

Thanks for the update. It did have square pins, but they were 1 ought. And even some of them were stripped.  (The edges had worn off) There are also some pins that are very loose, but in our climate, even loose pins will hold. 

The customer likes the way the piano plays and sounds, and enjoys playing it.. But he is aware that it is not a very good piano. He did tell me that a couple of years ago a technician had done some repair work to it. Even when I got there the first time some of the damper timing had to be adjusted. 

Thanks

Wim


 



-----Original Message-----
From: David Boyce <David at piano.plus.com>
To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Thu, Feb 28, 2013 2:48 pm
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Birdcage piano for David Boyce


              Thanks Wim.  1880s would seem about right. At      least it doesn't seem to have oblong pins, which you sometimes      encounter on those old cheap pianos, and which I hate!  It's a      spring and loop action I see. In my experience they never feel      nice.  I wonder if the owner understands that that piano was a      cheap and nasty model even when it was brand new?   In that era there were so many small workshops in      England churning out cheap poorly-made pianos for the newly      emerging lower middle-class domestic market.  There's not much      more to be said about that piano, except that it should probably      have been burnt sixty years ago!  But I come across plenty like      it.
      
      Best regards,
      
      David .  
    
On 01/03/2013 00:35,      pianotech-request at ptg.org wrote:
    
    
        
David
        
 
        
Here is a picture of the insides. I tried sending it the          first time, but Pianotech wouldn't let me, because it was too          big.
        
 
        
Wim
      
    
  
 
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