<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>I got nuked a couple of years ago for about 9 months. I sent an e-mail to the home office alerting them to the hiccup after I discovered I could no longer post. I was told that the problem was at my end. I called my internet service provider and was told that the problem was at their end. The problem was never solved, and I was not able to post again until I got a new e-mail address for my business and started to use that. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>I’d like to blame it on Higher Logic (it’s so much fun…. ) but this was before HL reared its ugly head. </span><span style='font-family:Wingdings;color:black'>J</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>I suspect there are other broken bodies out there…..<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Will Truitt<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 15, 2012 10:48 AM<br><b>To:</b> Pianotech List<br><b>Subject:</b> [pianotech] Fwd: Boston GP-178<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>From Terry Farrell. He is unable to post to our list.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for the info Terry.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Al -<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>High Point, NC<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Begin forwarded message:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Terry Farrell <<a href="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Subject: Re: [pianotech] Boston GP-178</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Date: </span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>May 15, 2012 10:39:09 AM EDT</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>To: </span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft <<a href="mailto:alliedpianocraft@hotmail.com">alliedpianocraft@hotmail.com</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Al,<br><br>I'm replying to you privately, but only because I can't post to the Pianotech List - my subscription got screwed up a year or two ago and they won't let me re-subscribe - so here I am a PTG member and can't interact with other fellow techs the way I'd like to. But more to the point.......<br><br>I owned a Boston GP-178 for about eight years - I think it was built in the mid-1990s. It was the nicest piano I serviced. For years I tuned it fairly regularly, every four months or so. And even then the "tuning" was really a light touch-up. I don't have whole-house humidity control, but I did have a good four-rod Dampp-Chaser dehumidier system on it (no humidifier). I live near Tampa, Florida.<br><br>One time, I guess I got lazy, I let the tuning go for about 18 months. There may have been a couple strings up in the high treble that were five cents or so out, but everything else was still within one or two cents. I had saved the tuning on my SAT at the time, so I was able to compare the tuning state note-by-note quite accurately. That piano was by far the most stable piano I have ever run across.<br><br>I had done some Stanwood-type evening out of the action touchweight and some standard but thorough maintenance on the piano - it was and very, very nice piano.<br><br>I sold it two or three years ago now to a church. I still see it every six months for a service call. The lady who plays it at the church always asks me "why did you sell such a nice piano?"<br><br>I still find it quite stable at the church, but I think with the church AC going on and off as they do (it's only on on Sundays and Wednesdays), that does take a small toll on the tuning. The DC dehumidification system is still on the piano and they have a nice heavy quilt cover on the piano.<br><br>If you care to post this to the Pianotech List, please feel free. I hope you found some of this to be of interest.<br><br>Terry Farrell<br>Farrell Piano Service, Inc.<br><br><br>On May 15, 2012, at 9:33 AM, Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft wrote:<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Here I am, a year later, blown away by this piano again. A little background this time. I first tuned this piano in 2006 with a pitch raise and tuning. The piano was between -30 and -75 cents. Tuned it again 4 months later in May. I found it at 441 and tuned it there.<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>I've been tuning it at 440 every year in May, since then. I wrote about it last year when I found the furthest notes out at -6 and +2 cents. Returned this year to find the furthest notes out to be -3 and +2. Totally unbelievable! This piano has no humidification system, but the owner says there is a whole house humidification unit in their heating system. I find the temperature is at 70° ± 1 and the humidity is at 42% ± 2.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>I just had to share this again. I find it very hard to believe. This piano is like a rock. Then there's the church with a GH1, that's out of tune after breathing near it for 5 minutes.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Al -<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>High Point, NC<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>