<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html style="font-size: x-small; font-family: MS Sans Serif"> <head> <title>RE: I 'spec someone does ...</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" /> <style>  </style> </head> <body> <div> <div align="left"><font size="2">Good idea. I'll check that.</font></div> <div align="left"><font size="2"></font></div> <div align="left"><font size="2">It seemed "normal" when I adjusted it but I wasn't thinking about that as a cause.</font></div><font size="2"></font> </div> <p><font size="2"></font></p> <p><font size="2">If it were, I suppose a teensy dollop of CA might cure it.</font></p> <div align="left"><br /><br />Alan Barnard<br />Salem, MO<br /><br /></div> <div style="padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-left: #000000 3px solid; padding-top: 5px" align="left"> <hr />Original message<br />From: "Paul McCloud" <pmc033@earthlink.net></pmc033@earthlink.net><br />To: "pianotuner@embarqmail.com, "Pianotech List" <pianotech@ptg.org></pianotech@ptg.org><br />Received: 9/25/2007 11:27:27 PM<br />Subject: RE: I 'spec someone does ...<br /><br /> <div> <div align="left">Hi, Alan:</div> <div>    You might see  how tight the balancier adjusting screw is.  Maybe it's too loose, causing the jack height to change?  Just a thought...</div> <div>    Paul McCloud</div> <div>    San Diego, CA</div> <div></div> <div></div> </div> <div></div> <blockquote style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; 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="pianotuner@embarqmail.com" href="mailto:pianotuner@embarqmail.com">Alan Barnard</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> 09/25/2007 8:32:56 PM </div> <div style="font: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> I 'spec someone does ...</div> <div><br /></div><font size="2"> <p>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.)</p> <p></p> <p>Pretty case, has potential I think, but regulation is horrible (see horror story below) and it badly needs voicing after that.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>Meat of Message (pork, mostly):  <em>Does anyone out there have a set of reg specs for this piano or know where I could reasonable get them?</em></p> <p><em></em></p> <p></p> <p>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 ...</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>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.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>Alan Barnard<br />Salem, MO</p></font> </blockquote> </div> </body> </html>