<HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="IncrediMail 1.0" name=GENERATOR>  </HEAD> <BODY style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0px 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 5px 10px 10px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bgColor=#ffffff background="" scroll=yes ORGYPOS="0"> <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> Hi Don,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The Mayer's piano was a job I did many years before I had heard about CA glue. I did do a similar Chinese piano this two weeks ago that had untunable pins and was down 100 cents. I applied about 6 ozs of CA glue with the piano on it's back and when standing it up it was able to be raised the 100 cents. Because the piano is only 5 minutes from my home I retuned it yesterday finding the pitch had dropped 10-40 cents. I did not use RCT overpull the first tuning but did yesterday after feeling happy with the pin block. I am going back in a couple of weeks to do a fine tune.</DIV> <DIV>The CA treatment saved this piano from being pushed into a corner and never played by the elderly lady.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>regards</DIV> <DIV>Robin</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV id=IncrediOriginalMessage><I>-------Original Message-------</I></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV id=receivestrings> <DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><I><B>From:</B></I> <A href="mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca">Don</A></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><I><B>Date:</B></I> 01/31/07 12:13:19</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><I><B>To:</B></I> <A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><I><B>Subject:</B></I> Re: Very interesting question--</DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Hi Robin,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Maybe this Chinese piano would benefit from a CA treatment?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>At 10:27 AM 1/31/2007 +1030, you wrote:</DIV> <DIV>>John the Chinese pianos of that era were notorious for having VERY bad pin</DIV> <DIV>>blocks. A lot of the owners of these pianos at the time were given their</DIV> <DIV>money</DIV> <DIV>>back by the retailer because of the untunable pin blocks. The symptom was,</DIV> <DIV>when</DIV> <DIV>>pulling the string up and taking your hand off the Lever the pin would spin</DIV> <DIV>>back!!!! and you say to pull it up 100 cents? sheeesh!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>>Robin Stevens>1/30/2007 9:31 AM</DIV> <DIV>Regards,</DIV> <DIV>Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.</DIV> <DIV>Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>mailto:pianotuna@yahoo.com <A href="http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/">http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK, S4S 5G7</DIV> <DIV>306-539-0716 or 1-888-29t-uner</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></BODY></HTML>