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<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">HI Avery,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>No, just some fancy carpet with a pattern. we're talking people with mone here. They gave us the original remnant they were tired of. Its great tight weave, but hard to vaccuum dog hair out of. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I wish vertical actions were as easy as grand actions to remove. I took an action out of a Stark piano my neighbor had in her garage. It was in such bad shape the pin block was seperated from the frame, yikes! I originaly took it as a practice piano for tuning not knowing how bad of shape it was in. I've come a long way in tuning since then, but I am still traveling that exciting road, never stop learning. It's still in our living room, and yes, my wife wonders when I'm going to get rid of it, in a loving gentle way that is. She never nags. I took the keys out and actionand found a dead mouse in it, pennies, pieces of paper dried up front rail felts and punchings. The pennies were all lined up which makes me wonder if someone used them to level the keys, but I'm not sure. One night I was curious what would happen if I took a string and wond it and wond it flat.... soon I heard a lound POP!! It about scared my nursing 5 at that time 4 month old out of his skin. oops. DId a string break when I heard that pop? Well enough rambling. Have a good one</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Marshall</FONT></DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message -------------- <BR>From: Avery <avery1@houston.rr.com> <BR><BR>> Or on the floor. Unless it's a white carpet, of course. :-) <BR>> <BR>> Avery <BR>> <BR>> At 08:27 PM 1/5/2006, you wrote: <BR>> >>Hi everyone, <BR>> >>My wife used to clean for a woman who eventually wants me to tune <BR>> >>her baby grand Kanabe piano. When they take lessons, she wants it <BR>> >>tuned. I need to call and follow up on this when my new lever <BR>> >>arrives. Anyway, she wants me to clean out the case. I'll have to <BR>> >>remove the action, but she doesn't have a bench to place the action <BR>> >>on while I have it out. Where should I place the action. It has <BR>> >>to be a safe place. I don't want her toddler walking on it if I <BR>> >>have it on the floor, or put it on her dining room table and <BR>> >>scratching it. Any ideas? <BR>> >>Marshall <BR>> > <BR>> > <BR>> > <BR>> > <BR>> >Not a big deal. <BR>> > <BR>> >Bring a piano/furniture mover's pad/blanket, and a very clean/soft <BR>> >cloth of equal size. Just lay the clean cloth on the piano ( lid <BR>> >closed ), pad on top, and set the action on the piano. <BR>> >-- <BR>> >Sid Blum <BR>> >sid@sover.net <BR>> >_______________________________________________ <BR>> >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives <BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________________ <BR>> pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives </BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>