<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'> <div><font style="background-color: transparent;" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"></font></div> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"><blockquote style="padding-left: 3px; border-left-color: blue; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid;"><font size="3" face="Arial">I'm curious,</font><br> <font size="3" face="Arial">Since education was so thorough back then, then whyy on earth did the guys who built the duplex my wife and I are renting in  1915 fail to use insulation? I mean really didn' tthey have anything back then? </font></blockquote></div> <div></div> <div>As far as the lack of insulation, back then I don't think they had anything on the market that would do the job. People back then just bundled up, and put more coal in the furnace. </div> <div style="clear: both;"> <div> </div> <div>Wim </div> </div> <div></div> <div></div> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Marshall Gisondi <pianotune05@hotmail.com><br> To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Tue, Dec 4, 2012 5:00 pm<br> Subject: [pianotech] 8th grade education<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_1_f6a5a9f4-fe8f-4bf6-93c9-45d074609ef3"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="3" face="Arial">I'm curious,</font><br> <font size="3" face="Arial">Since education was so thorough back then, then whyy on earth did the guys who built the duplex my wife and I are renting in  1915 fail to use insulation? I mean really didn' tthey have anything back then?  I would like to get a larger place to live so we can have a piano. I know sounds odd for a piano tech to be missing a piano lol  </font><br> <font size="3" face="Arial"></font> <br> <font size="3" face="Arial">Speaking of pianos now, have any of you ever found the last two or three bichord strings in the tennor problematic when striving for a clean crisp unison?  I know much is said about hammer control, but is there ever a possibility that some tuning levers are inferior to others or does tuning strictly have to do with hammer control period no matter how expensive or inexpensive of a hammer one uses?  Is all of this talk about different levers a matter of preference?  I have the schaff 21c lever and I bought the universal head and tip that are one unit because I needed a better head for clearing plate struts in grands when tuning, but for whatever reason the new head doesn't screw on tight.  It tightens so much loosens and then gets too tight again. I'm hoping I can get this off again.  Also what have you found that works when tuning grands in the treble section where the rim and often the lid support get in the way and you have to get in a twisted position in order to tune up there.  What are your thoughts on all of this?  </font><br> <font size="3" face="Arial">Marshall</font><br> <font size="3" face="Arial">215-510-9400</font><br> <font size="3" face="Arial"><a href="http://www.phillytuner.com" target="_blank">http://www.phillytuner.com</a> </font><br> </div> </div>  </div> </font>