<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Quite the story Terry. I'd like to hear if you see this piano again in about 6 months or so how the glue is holding up. As for the rest... well it just goes to show you... the music is in the person playing.... far more then it is in anything else. Cheers, and thanks for the story RicB Farrell wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE><style></style> Old upright. Several technicians had already refused to work on the piano. "We called several piano tuners and they wouldn't even come out." Someone gave it to new owners. Less than stellar piano. Tried in vain to get owners to toss it out. A dozen or more tuning pins that were so loose that the pitch dropped several steps when you removed tuning lever from pin. Remainder of pins were marginal. No plate bushings. Plate was stained (like with paint remover) around all tuning pins and the few pins that had any torque were very mushy feeling - some type of tuning pin tightener chemical treatment had apparently been used in the past. I warned the owners that CA sometimes works well and sometimes has no beneficial effect. I expressed concerns on how the past application of pin dope might affect the effectiveness of the CA application. This past Tuesday laid piano back on tilter. Wiggled and marked worst tuning pins. Applied one bottle of Hot Stuff thin CA to all tuning pins with extra application to worst pins. Came back last night (Thursday) and pitch raised and tuned the old beastie. Maybe a dozen pins had around 80 to 100 inch-pounds of torque. The remainder had up to 200 inch-pounds of torque. Several were arm killers! Lady who hadn't played in 15 years after taking 12 years of lessons as a child was thrilled as she sat down and ripped into some Chopin - with the keys clickety-clackity with lost motion, jacks clicking with missing butt felts, hammers double striking, soundboard/ribs cracks buzzing.   :-(     Oh well. She appeared quite oblivious to all the noise - appeared to have the ability to filter everything out but the music as she grinned ear-to-ear. I hope she has a durable noise filter! I told her to play the piano for a while and if she was going to keep and play it there were a "few" (thousand) things we could do to improve the old piano. Just thought I would share. Amazing results!   :-) Terry Farrell</blockquote> -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway <A HREF="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> <A HREF="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html">http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</A> <A HREF="http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html">http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html</A>   </body> </html>