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<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua">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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua">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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua">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!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua">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!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua">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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua">Just thought I would share. Amazing
results! :-)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua">Terry =
Farrell</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>