<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2523" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana" bottomMargin=7 bgColor=#ffffff leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Did you say, push pin back in?</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Might I suggest, that replacing the pin with a larger size, after reaming and polishing the bushed hole, is a more permanent repair.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>You didn't fix the problem, as the pin is still loose.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Not that I never did, what you did. :-)</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Regards,</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV>John M. Ross<BR>Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada<BR><A href="mailto:jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca">jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca</A></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Piannaman@aol.com href="mailto:Piannaman@aol.com">Piannaman@aol.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 28, 2005 12:02 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Less driving, more tuning--aka, a good day!</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT id=role_document face=Verdana color=#000000 size=3> <DIV>List, especially newbies to the world of home piano service,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Take heart!  Keep at it!  You won't always have to drive 8,000 miles for a spinet store tuning.  Actually, it doesn't seem like that long ago..... </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Today was somewhat different, and what I am seeing on a regular basis:  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Job one, tune two pianos(a Kawai baby grand and a Yamaha P2, both in decent tune) at a teacher's house</DIV> <DIV>45 minute break at Peet's Coffee to swill some brew, talk to my son on the phone and call assorted clients (a sordid client??)</DIV> <DIV>drive three miles </DIV> <DIV>Job two, Seiler upright, right at pitch, no meddling necessary with action.</DIV> <DIV>15 minute break, drive 5 miles</DIV> <DIV>Job three, Walter console at pitch, regular client; touch up lost motion and let-off</DIV> <DIV>on my way home go to</DIV> <DIV>Job four, PSO Karl Muller upright.  Regular client.  Pushed pin back through jack and flange to fix dead key, touched up lost motion.  At pitch, tuned.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Here's the kicker:  total drive time?  Around 30 minutes, not one job being more than 7 miles from my home!  Less drive time between jobs is huge in terms of lowering stress in a congested metropolitan area.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Here's to many more of these for all of us(without the Karl Muller, perhaps!)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dave Stahl, feeling somewhat relaxed after such a small amount of road time and a glass of Shiraz</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML>