<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2873" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>Avery wrote;</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV>"Just one more reason it's nice to be a university tech! No 200 cent pitch raises!  :-D "</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>Quite frankly I don't know how you can stand it. I found university work incredibly boring when I was there for 3 months industrial training. Same old pianos every day and no one to talk to. Same goes for schools; 30 pianos all exactly the same model. How dull and repetitive.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>AF</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><BR><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=avery1@houston.rr.com href="mailto:avery1@houston.rr.com">Avery</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 08, 2006 8:32 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Refelting hammers...clamp type clothes pins idea</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Terry, <BR><BR>At 06:47 AM 6/8/2006, you wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">I have done this a number of times on old uprights and crummy little spinets, etc. However, I simply spray one surface with accelerator and apply thick CA glue to the other surface and hold with fingers for maybe ten seconds and move on to the next one. That way I can do the 200-cent pitch raise and tuning right away at the same appointment. </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Just one more reason it's nice to be a university tech! No 200 cent pitch raises!  :-D <BR><BR>Avery <BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">No need to wait for glue to dry or to have the piano owner removing clothes pins!<BR> <BR>Terry Farrell<BR> <DL> <DD>----- Original Message ----- <BR> <DD>        Regluing unravelling hammer felts, I use clamp clothes pins to hold the felt on while the glue dries. Also, I always carry about 15 of them in my tool kit. When I do this on a customer's old piano (the key word here is old,</I> (or spinet) as I don't think I would reglue unravelling hammer felt on an expensive high end piano via clothes pins), I dont have time to watch the glue dry. I just instruct the customer to gently remove the clothes pins the next day and they can keep the pins for keeping music books open or something. I deduct the clothes pins as a business supply.<BR> <DD><BR>  <DD>Julia<BR> <DD>Reading PA  <BR></DD></DL></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>