<!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 6.00.5730.11" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0px 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 5px 10px 10px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bgColor=#ffffff background="" scroll=yes ORGYPOS="0"> <DIV><STRONG>Obviously, I was meaning pinblocks that would hold a tune.</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG>If it won't hold the tension, why even tune it in the first place, without remedying the problem.</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG>If it can't be fixed, charge for a service call.</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>John M. Ross<BR>Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada<BR><A href="mailto:jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca">jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca</A></FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE 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=pianoman@westnet.com.au href="mailto:pianoman@westnet.com.au">Robin Stevens</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> Tuesday, January 30, 2007 7:57 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Very interesting question--</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <TABLE id=INCREDIMAINTABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="100%" border=0><TBODY> <TR> <TD id=INCREDITEXTREGION style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; CURSOR: auto; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" width="100%"> <DIV> John the Chinese pianos of that era were notorious for having VERY bad pin blocks. A lot of the owners of these pianos at the time were given their money back by the retailer because of the untunable pin blocks. The symptom was, when pulling the string up and taking your hand off the Lever the pin would spin back!!!! and you say to pull it up 100 cents? sheeesh!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Robin Stevens </DIV> <DIV id=IncrediOriginalMessage> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG>Why did you not do a pitch raise?</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG>I always take pianos to A440, unless there are special circumstances.</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>John M. Ross<BR>Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada<BR><A href="mailto:jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca">jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; rem_PADDING-LEFT: 5px; rem_MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; rem_BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=pianoman@westnet.com.au href="mailto:pianoman@westnet.com.au">Robin Stevens</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> Tuesday, January 30, 2007 5:14 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Very interesting question--</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <TABLE id=mod_EDIMAINTABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="100%" border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD id=mod_EDITEXTREGION style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; CURSOR: auto; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" width="100%"> <DIV> I had the Lord Mayer of a small town call me and say proudly that his "never been tuned" Chinese Pearl River he bought in the 1950's needed tuning. According to his ear only a couple of notes needed tuning!!!</DIV> <DIV>It had dropped a full semitone but no unisons had gone completely berserk. I tuned it to A415, but I am not holding my breath waiting for the next tuning.[--((</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Robin Stevens</DIV> <DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3></FONT></STRONG><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2></DIV></FONT> </DIV></TD></TR> <TR> <TD id=mod_EDIFOOTER width="100%"> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width="100%"></TD> <TD id=mod_EDISOUND vAlign=bottom align=middle></TD> <TD id=mod_EDIANIM vAlign=bottom align=middle></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></TD></TR> <TR> <TD id=INCREDIFOOTER width="100%"> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width="100%"></TD> <TD id=INCREDISOUND vAlign=bottom align=middle></TD> <TD id=INCREDIANIM vAlign=bottom align=middle></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>