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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And you didn't have your camera...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Barbara Richmond, RPT</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>near Peoria, Illinois</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=mrchuckbeck@mail.com href="mailto:mrchuckbeck@mail.com">Chuck
Beck</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, November 01, 2007 5:03
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Ribless Baldwin Hamilton</DIV>
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<P>I had to share this one, it was interesting. When I arrived at my
second appointment today at a retirement home I was shown to the piano.
It was a Hamilton like soooo many others, and I generally like them. I
carved out the damper pedal lever where it rubbed the plate, and starting
listening. The bass was rattling the soundboard like crazy, and I
wondered how I had missed the light poking through the gaps. Nope.
No caverns or big splits. It was the ribs piled up in the back.
There were two left partially attached to the soundboard, the rest were held
in by the backposts and were as free as my advice. <BR></P>
<P>Well, I'll let you guess how this beast sounded. Really it wasn't as
bad as I would have expected considering. The splitting and
curling treble bridge didn't help either, in fact it made the treble almost
completely dead. The funny thing is that the action was pretty ok, the
bass bridge was solid (I had noted this first) and pin torque was even
and tight. Thumper isn't just a bunny.</P>
<P>chuckbeck<BR></P><PRE>Chuck Beck Piano Services
1605 West Main St., Decatur, Il 62522
(217)620-0842
(309)451-4652
mrchuckbeck@mail.com
www.chuckbeckpianoservices.net
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