<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML style="FONT-SIZE: medium; FONT-FAMILY: AGaramond Bold"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>I hear a 68 year old piano on an old = recording of a Chicago Blues jazz boogie woogie player, Albert Ammons.  The piano = sounded out of tune.  I often comment to my wife how some pianos sound out = of tune on recordings, even in some of the 50s and 60s oldies I 've noticed out = of tuneness in their pianos as I listened. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>Marshall</FONT></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=joegarrett@earthlink.net href="mailto:joegarrett@earthlink.net">Joseph Garrett</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 12, = 2006 3:49 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Lovely OverDamper Piano</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <P> <DIV>Terry "the Farrell" asked: " <DIV><FONT size=+0>How is it we "know" how pianos originally sounded = 100+ years ago? I know =</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0>some piano tuners are old, = but........"</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0>Terry,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>The answer, IMHO, is to do a complete/meticulous Restoration, (as opposed to = Rebuilding/Remanufacturing/Overhauling/Fiddling with.<G>), of a few. Once one has done this, you begin to = have a clearer idea what that sound was. Although, not as accurate as a time = machine, it's what we've got to go on.</FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV>Regards,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Joe Garrett, R.P.T. (Oregon)</DIV> <DIV>Captain, Tool Police</DIV> <DIV>Squares R I</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P></P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>