<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>RE: Customizing a piano</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1> <STYLE> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </STYLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16674" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY class=hmmessage id=MailContainerBody style="PADDING-RIGHT: 10px; PADDING-LEFT: 10px; PADDING-TOP: 15px" bgColor=#ffffff leftMargin=0 topMargin=0 CanvasTabStop="true" name="Compose message area"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>No one gave any of us the "pleasure" of writing and spelling correctly, we had to study and learn. It wasn't pleasure! It was hard work.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>anon</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Original message<BR>From: "A E" <EVE_ANE@HOTMAIL.CO.UK> </EVE_ANE@HOTMAIL.CO.UK><BR>To: "Pianotech List" <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG> </PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG><BR>Received: 7/2/2008 8:40:26 AM<BR>Subject: RE: Customizing a piano<BR><BR></DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 3px solid; PADDING-TOP: 5px"> <P align=left>Maybe I was a boy and now a girl, lol...<BR> <BR>Text message mode you say, some of us arent given the pleasure of writing and spelling correctly or reading for that matter. I do my best!<BR> <BR>Alicia<BR><BR><BR></P> <HR> <BR>From: collin.s@skynet.be<BR>To: pianotech@ptg.org<BR>Subject: RE: Customizing a piano<BR>Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 17:31:36 +0200<BR><BR><BR> <META content="Microsoft SafeHTML" name=Generator> <STYLE> .ExternalClass .EC_shape {;} </STYLE> <STYLE> .ExternalClass p.EC_MsoNormal, .ExternalClass li.EC_MsoNormal, .ExternalClass div.EC_MsoNormal {margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman','serif';} .ExternalClass a:link, .ExternalClass span.EC_MsoHyperlink {color:blue;text-decoration:underline;} .ExternalClass a:visited, .ExternalClass span.EC_MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple;text-decoration:underline;} .ExternalClass p {margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman','serif';} .ExternalClass span.EC_EmailStyle18 {font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D;} .ExternalClass .EC_MsoChpDefault {font-size:10.0pt;} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt;} .ExternalClass div.EC_Section1 {page:Section1;} </STYLE> <DIV class=EC_Section1> <P class=EC_MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">What if you were a boy ?</SPAN></P> <P class=EC_MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">You’d be kicked out immediately, without all that interest.</SPAN></P> <P class=EC_MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Don’t ask how I know.</SPAN></P> <P class=EC_MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"></SPAN> </P> <P class=EC_MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Anon.</SPAN></P> <P class=EC_MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"></SPAN> </P> <P class=EC_MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"></SPAN> </P> <DIV> <DIV style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none"> <P class=EC_MsoNormal><B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Tom Servinsky<BR><B>Sent:</B> mercredi 2 juillet 2008 12:29<BR><B>To:</B> Pianotech List<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Customizing a piano</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV> <P class=EC_MsoNormal> </P> <DIV> <P class=EC_MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Schoolbook','serif'">Alicia</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> </SPAN></P></DIV> <DIV> <P class=EC_MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Schoolbook','serif'">I have been following your comments for the past several months. The core of your comments ( and your admitted sharp tongue) suggest that you are looking for dialogue,debate, ideas, and not friendship within the piano tech community. With all due respect, and I say this with us much restraint as that I can muster, and as a father of 4 girls who text me back and forth using the same shortcut lingo, if you want this community to view you as something more than a 14 yr pimply-faced ,immature,little brat, I beg of you to clean up your presentation. Write with accepted sentence structure and above all, guard yourself against the personal bomb throwing insults.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> </SPAN></P></DIV> <DIV> <P class=EC_MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Schoolbook','serif'">You will not be taken seriously if you continue your dialogues in the "text message" mode. You especially will not be taken seriously if you continue to pick fights with your "sharp tongue"  for the sake of picking a fight..</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> </SPAN></P></DIV> <DIV> <P class=EC_MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Schoolbook','serif'">The old adage of judging a book by the cover plays homage to the fact that the majority of this list have a hard time finding you a credible individual for debate and insight. If you want your ideas and comments to resonate positively within this list I beg of you to clean up your shtick and resist the urges to act out. You are only digging the hole deeper and deeper.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> </SPAN></P></DIV> <DIV> <P class=EC_MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Schoolbook','serif'">Tom Servinsky</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> </SPAN></P></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; MARGIN-LEFT: 3.75pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1.5pt solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0cm; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none"> <DIV> <P class=EC_MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">----- Original Message ----- </SPAN></P></DIV> <DIV> <P class=EC_MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4"><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> <A title=eve_ane@hotmail.co.uk href="mailto:eve_ane@hotmail.co.uk">A E</A> </SPAN></P></DIV> <DIV> <P class=EC_MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">To:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A> </SPAN></P></DIV> <DIV> <P class=EC_MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Sent:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> Tuesday, July 01, 2008 10:17 PM</SPAN></P></DIV> <DIV> <P class=EC_MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Subject:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> RE: Customizing a piano</SPAN></P></DIV> <DIV> <P class=EC_MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"></SPAN> </P></DIV> <P class=EC_MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">well Willem, if u think this is april fools, fly out to philadelphia and have a look at my piano and what ive done to it urself :-) u might like it, its a very pleasant little thing... also noisy accodring to my neighbours... i wrote it simply to ask about the experiments i do with my piano, an what people might think about them...<BR> <BR>alicia<BR><BR></SPAN></P> <DIV class=EC_MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> <HR align=center width="100%" SIZE=2> </SPAN></DIV> <P class=EC_MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">To: pianotech@ptg.org<BR>Subject: Re: Customizing a piano<BR>Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 20:57:47 -0400<BR>From: wimblees@aol.com<BR><BR>April fools was two months ago :)</SPAN></P> <DIV> <P class=EC_MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT<BR>Piano Tuner/Technician<BR>Honolulu, HI<BR>808-349-2943<BR>www.bleespiano.com<BR>Author of <BR>The Business of Piano Tuning<BR>available from Potter Press<BR>www.pianotuning.com</SPAN></P></DIV> <P class=EC_MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: A E <eve_ane@hotmail.co.uk><BR>To: Pianotech List <pianotech@ptg.org><BR>Sent: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 5:18 am<BR>Subject: Customizing a piano</SPAN></P> <DIV id=EC_EC_AOLMsgPart_2_32b61ccb-d24c-4c19-80e7-15a668d44a1b> <P class=EC_MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">Hello all, <BR> <BR>I have recently crossed a customer who asked me to make some custom changes to his S&S model B. Such as raising the lyre height alittle (he says he has big feet and its unfomfortable for him to use the height set), so i found a couple of big guys with hairy palms to lift the piano, and put some larger casters in, which raised the piano by about almost an inch, which he said was just right.... That got me thinking... I'm 6ft tall (unfortunately) and one of the pianos I have, the keybed was so low i couldnt fit my knees underneath and it was a very... shall we say loosly uncomfortable experience playing it, as well as the same problem as the customer, i have biger feet than most and pedal height was unfomfortable, so i took up larger grand sized casters. The piano im talking about is a  43inch console which i wrote about before, (the one i fell in love with). But after i carried away on a spree with customizing it for myself, i changed entire regulation, let off is not set at about 3mm in bass and 5mm in trebble, basically as close as it will get without bouncing, put on a very tight set of hammer springs, and made a drastic change of puting in a set of hammers that normally would go into a 290 Bösey... Adjusting capstains i didnt leave the hammer resting on the hammer rest rail, instead, i adjusted them so that theyr about 5mm off the rail, in other words the butt is resting on the jack. (adjusted the action brakets to make sure hammers keep the same blow distance as if they were rested on the rail)... Shokingly the action became as heavy as on a new grand piano.. however, it has also became intensely sencitive, and repetition is fast and clean (atleast as far as i can play).... it almost feels like im playing my old Bosey 290... <BR>While i was as it i lubricated center pins and front rail pins with some oil for guns... yes for guns :-)... and i was astonished and what a diference this experiment made....<BR>Now my question is, is making such experiments ok? and if so why dont most manufacturers today who make good quality uprights dont mess around more with the actions they make?<BR> <BR> <BR>Alicia Evans<BR>Philadelphia</SPAN></P> <DIV class=EC_MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> <HR align=center width="100%" SIZE=2> </SPAN></DIV> <P class=EC_MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">Get 5GB of online storage for free! <A href="http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/msnnkmgl001000000%20%205ukm/direct/01/" target=_blank>Get it Now! </A>= </SPAN></P></DIV> <DIV id=EC_EC_u8CAA9F5C6E1F1F9-111C-F32> <DIV class=EC_MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> <HR align=center width="100%" SIZE=2> </SPAN></DIV> <P class=EC_MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><A title=http://toolbar.aol.com/moviefone/download.html?ncid=aolcmp00050000000011 href="http://toolbar.aol.com/moviefone/download.html?ncid=aolcmp00050000000011" target=_blank>Get the Moviefone Toolbar</A>. 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