<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> Alan R. Barnard wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid0363B387$071E1021355D$003006@OFFICE"> <meta http-equiv="Context-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <title>HTML Message</title> You'll think I'm making this up or exagerating but I'm not ...   1906 AIII, had serious issues when I first saw it. </blockquote> Bingo! You're making it up. They didn't start making the AIII until 1914! :-D <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid0363B387$071E1021355D$003006@OFFICE"> Sat down and noodled a few notes. It DID sound good. Got out the gear and started to tune. A4 center string was dead-on A440 and I mean dead on, exactly at A440! </blockquote> Nice save. The last bad restringing job, I had to tell the owner it needed a new pin block (and strings and pins). The previous tech had pounded in the pins without using a jack and there was no torque in the bass. :-@  It didn't help that the block was only screwed to the plate - no liner or stretcher support anywhere. <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid0363B387$071E1021355D$003006@OFFICE"> The only real aggravation left is that this piano plays like a Mack truck. Very heavy and way out of regulation. She likes it that way, what can you say. And BTW, she was a concert pianist and can still --heavy action and all--bring Beethoven and Brahms out of that piano that'll give you goose bumps.   </blockquote> Friction or geometry problem? <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid0363B387$071E1021355D$003006@OFFICE"> It's an interesting life.   </blockquote> Yeah. It keeps me looking forward to Monday. <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid0363B387$071E1021355D$003006@OFFICE"> Alan Barnard Salem, MO Joshua 24:15 </blockquote> Tom Cole </body> </html>