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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sounds like the temperature motivated you to work
faster. I think you will find these broken cords in "American" Yamahas
just as much if from the same era. Yamaha did not kiln dry the cotton cord
to a special moisture content ; ) It was usually brown cord and
Yamaha paid me to replace several of the "American" ones. They used to try
to tell me it only happened in my area because of the wet, salty air and were
reluctant to pay (this was mid-late 80's). I am not a believer in the
"Grey Market" differentiation. If the customer was cheap, the tech could
have just replaced the ones without the damper spring helping the hammer to
return. I have seen lots of shortcuts taken because that's all the
customer would pay for. I used to assume it was the tech until I saw
enough to realize it is oftentimes a tech trying to do the best he can with low
pay. I give the benefit of the doubt more as I get older ;
) </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Lance Lafargue, RPT<BR>LAFARGUE PIANOS, LTD<BR>LPIANOS.com<BR><A
href="mailto:lafargue@bellsouth.net">lafargue@bellsouth.net</A><BR>4244 Hwy 22
Mandeville, LA 70471<BR>985.72P.IANO</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=piannaman@aol.com
href="mailto:piannaman@aol.com">piannaman@aol.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, January 27, 2007 9:49
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Spring cord repair; partial job
discovered</DIV>
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<DIV> It seems like every other grey market Yamaha upright I run into has
breaking hammer return spring cords. I did yet another replacement
job yesterday, this time in the customers garage, where temperatures
hovered around 50 degrees farenheit all morning. It's hard to manipulate
all those little pieces of thread with numb fingers. Still, after
getting better at the repetitive tasks required on this job, I cut about an
hour off my previous time. </DIV>
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<DIV>The interesting about this particular U3 is that somebody had already
replaced some of the cords--but only on the notes with no dampers.
Somebody obviously found the breaking cord problem, but wanted to
sell the piano with a minimum of expense. All the other notes
would function to some degree without the hammer return spring, but without
the push of the damper spring, the end keys would have a helluva time
returning to position. Pretty shoddy.</DIV>
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<DIV style="CLEAR: both">Dave Stahl<BR><BR>Dave Stahl Piano
Service<BR>650-224-3560<BR>dstahlpiano@sbcglobal.net<BR>http://dstahlpiano.net/<BR><BR><BR><BR></DIV>
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