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<A title=Erwinspiano@aol.com
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title=pianotech@ptg.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> November 21, 2003 7:41 =
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: 1876 Knabe grand =
with screw
in dampers</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 11/21/2003 6:50:01 AM Pacific Standard Time, =
<A
href="mailto:pianobuilders@olynet.com">pianobuilders@olynet.com</A>
writes:</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>ct:</B> 1876 Knabe grand with =
screw in
dampers</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000040> <FONT
size=3><STRONG>List </STRONG></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000040 =
size=3><STRONG> It
must be my month for old relics.First an 1880 bechstein, 1870 9 ft =
steinway ugh. </STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000040 =
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However I just took in this amazingly well preseved piano for =
some
light rebuilding. ie. strings ,shanks hammers, dampers etc. The =
board and
bridges in remarkably good condition with power & sustain. The =
down
size is that it has the screw in damper wires & I must =
remove
them to string & replace the felt. What does one do other than =
spending half a day unsrewing the bloomin =
thingees?</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000040
size=3> Dale</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 =
size=3>One takes one's
wire cutters and one cuts the bloody things off. Then one makes a =
new tray
and gets rid of the things.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080
size=3>Del</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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color=#000040>
Thanks for the imense help.grin Hope I can reciprocate =
sometime</FONT></DIV>
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size=3>You're welcome. But
I was serious. Think of the alternatives. You struggle getting the =
things out
without bending the wires beyond recognition. Then you struggle to get =
the
damper felts on straight. Then you struggle to get them back in the =
piano
intact. Then you struggle to twist and turn until you get them all =
adjusted to
height. And get the wires bent back so they will work. Kind of. Or, you =
can
struggle to put them back in and roughly adjusted for height and then =
put the
felt on. Either way...it ain't gonna be fun. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=3>In =
about the same
amount of time you can make and install a new tray. Including modifying =
the
thing for capstans if you want to do what the manufacturer should have =
done
decades back. In the end it is not much more expensive to give the =
customer a
decent -- and serviceable -- more-or-less modern damper =
tray.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 =
size=3>Perhaps I'm just
getting overly curmudgeonly in my old age, but there are some things I =
no longer
care to work on. And this is one of them. Life is way to short to put up =
with
aggravations like that.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080
size=3>Del</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>