<html><head><base href="x-msg://36/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><u><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Joe Gross wrote: </span></font></u><div><u><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></u></div><div><u><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Cut to the chase: We tightened the bolts with a socket. Crown is back in the mid section where it was flat. Sustain 8 seconds</span></font>.</u></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><blockquote type="cite" style="font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff"></div></span></blockquote></span><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff"></div></span></blockquote><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div>Del, I don't think it was relative humidity change in this case. As I read it, it was an immediate change.</div><div><br></div><div>Al -</div><div>High Point, NC</div><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<br><div><div>On Jul 3, 2011, at 9:51 AM, Delwin D Fandrich wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: navy; ">It’s more likely the relative humidity around the piano has changed thus changing the moisture content in the board thus changing the amount of crown. Happens all the time when humidity levels changes.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: navy; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: navy; ">ddf<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: navy; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(99, 36, 35); ">Delwin D Fandrich</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(99, 36, 35); "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(99, 36, 35); ">Piano Design & Fabrication</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(99, 36, 35); "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(99, 36, 35); ">6939 Foothill Court SW,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(99, 36, 35); ">Olympia, Washington 98512 USA<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(99, 36, 35); ">Phone 360.515.0119 — Cell 360.388.6525</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(99, 36, 35); "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(99, 36, 35); "><a href="mailto:del@fandrichpiano.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: blue; ">del@fandrichpiano.com<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(99, 36, 35); ">—<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(99, 36, 35); "><a href="mailto:ddfandrich@gmail.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: blue; ">ddfandrich@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: navy; "><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: navy; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div><div style="border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding-top: 3pt; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Sunday, July 03, 2011 5:33 AM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">pianotech@ptg.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [pianotech] SnS rim screws<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Joe, it could then be possible that the plate was up off the supports and when you tighten the plate bolts you got the plate down onto the supports and thus the improved tone and down bearing.<o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black; ">Al -<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black; ">High Point, NC</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: navy; "><o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>