<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>l'll second that, Dale! I had a butt walnut* Lindemann player with a Standard double-valve action, that was one of the very best uprights I've ever heard!<br /><br />Thumpe<br /><br />*The ornate walnut on most American pianos that is commonly and incorrectly called "burl", is in fact "butt": it comes from the base of the tree, where there is more figure in the grain. Burl is something entirely else: wood, often cut into veneers, with truly dense and wild patterns that are caused by a viral "tumor" on the tree somewhere. </div></td></tr></table> <div id="_origMsg_">
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From: Joseph Garrett <joegarrett@earthlink.net><br>
To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><br>
Sent: Thu, Nov 1, 2012 5:41 pm<br>
Subject: [pianotech] Pitch raising addendun<br>
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<pre style="font-size:9pt;"><tt>Just got home from a repeat client. The piano: A Lindeman, 1920ish, 52".
The first time I saw it , I had to put a new set of key tops on; bush the
keys; ease/level/dip the keys; clean out the interior; recondition the
action; regulate it all and raise the pitch 69 cents!<G> A year later, (I
did recommend a 6 month follow up, but that didn't happen), the piano was
exactly like I would have expected: The middle and bass were a few cents
flat. A4 was 2cents flat. The Killer octave, up to the top C88, was, for
the most part a few cents sharp.<G> Tuning was a breeze and the client told
me that he thought it sounded o.k. at the 6 month time, so let it go the
full year. He was right. Damn! I need to quit using that pitch raising
program and tuning so solid! Cost me bucks there! <G> One sluggish key:
C88, ....so, my bushing/easing went as expected. I just love it when a plan
comes together.<G>
Just thought I'd give y'all a bit of insight into the way that PR program
lays it out for ya.
Have a great weakend. Me? I'm off to oversee Oregon Day, in Keizer Oregon.
That's a one day seminar for all us DUCKS/HUSKIES/BEAVERS AND OTHER
ASSORTED ANIMAL TYPE MASCOTS! <G>
Joe
Joe Garrett, R.P.T.
Captain of the Tool Police
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