<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <title>RE: I 'spec someone does ...</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" /> <style> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} </style> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } </style> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang="EN-US" vlink="#800080" link="#0000ff"> <div class="Section1"> Put the DC in and 2 oz of CA on the same day. Come back in three weeks (assuming they've been faithful in watering the piano and keeping the plug in and the electricity on -- not always a given in churches -- and tune the piano. Then, if possible, touch it up in another month or so. They'll think you're a miracle worker, I'd bet. Alan Barnard Salem, MO <div style="padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-left: #000000 3px solid; padding-top: 5px"> <hr />Original message From: "Michelle Smith" <michelle@smithpianoservice.com></michelle@smithpianoservice.com> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech@ptg.org></pianotech@ptg.org> Received: 9/25/2007 11:00:45 PM Subject: RE: I 'spec someone does ... <div class="Section1"> I’ve tuned one Hyundai here in the Texas version of the boondocks.  It’s in a local church, is not particularly old, and the pinblock is so loose it’s almost untuneable.  We’ve been discussing a Dampp-Chaser system before we move to something more drastic. Michelle Smith <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"> <hr tabindex="-1" align="center" width="100%" size="2" /> </div> From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Alan Barnard Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 10:31 PM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: I 'spec someone does ... </div> Tuned a Hyundai G-82 grand, today. First I'd ever seen or even heard of? (We live a sheltered life, here in the boondocks, i.e., the Ozarks.) Pretty case, has potential I think, but regulation is horrible (see horror story below) and it badly needs voicing after that. Meat of Message (pork, mostly):  Does anyone out there have a set of reg specs for this piano or know where I could reasonable get them? Horror story, the worst note: F5 blocking against the strings "chingank" sort of sound. Found the lettoff button screwed to the top, no letoff at all. "Who would do this," I ask, "and why?" Tried to set a letoff, but the hammer failed to reset on every blow, i.e., dead note, no play. Hmmm ... Further investigation finds the jack way too high, about 3 mm above the rep window. No wonder someone who couldn't/didn't diagnose the problem correctly messed with the letoff trying to get it to reset--I'm surprised he/she left the front rail punchings in place! Adjusted jack height and all is well—or at least the note plays, lets off, and resets. The only excuse I can give our mystery tuner is that who the heck would expect a key regulation item to be so far out of whack? And why would it? Given the piano's one-owner history, it almost had to come from the factory or dealer this way. Alan Barnard Salem, MO </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>