loose pinning in Renner butterfly springs

[Delwin D Fandrich]

Horace,

It's not just the mass. It's also the "toughness." Hornbeam damages much easier than does
maple.

If this keeps up, I'll have to resurect my old "Features" class.

Regards,

Del

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Horace Greeley wrote:

> Del,
>
> Thanks for the vote of confidence.
>
> Without waxing entirely too obnoxious, I've seen
> way too many actions butchered in your choice of
> methods, often with work _very_ nicely done by
> well-intentioned technicians, trying to overcome this
> mass issue by attacking (literally) everything else.
>
> Last time I bothered to measure, a Renner S&S whip
> was roughly 3.5-5 gms heavier than it's more poorly
> executed, but made from maple NY counterpart.
>
> Others know those numbers and things a great deal
> better than I do, but this simply isn't rocket science, it's
> either good basic piano work, or it's not.
>
> In other news:
>
> Del, please put me on the list for a catalog of your new
> line of piano products and services.  I expect something
> of at least the quality of the Fazioli presentations.  You know,
> four colour separations, 45# varnished stock, rotogravuere,
> etc.
>
> While I am sure that there is a veritable multitude of possibilities
> for this kind of thing, the only (modest) proposal I have is for
> precision pre-cut, tumbled, polished, gold-plated centerpins.
> For the truly discriminating technician, these could be used with
> the surgical steel, rhodium-plated, Swiss made, double-compound
> lever center pin plier and matching cutting and burnishing
> tools (for that _very_ special instrument).  Given the cost of
> what passes for tools these days (where _is_ Hale when we
> need them? Old Hale, that is.), the centerpins should go for
> about $0.50 per, and the pliers a cool grand.
>
> Good Morning to All!
>
> (Yes, the caffeine is starting to kick in...)
>
> Best.
>
> Horace
>
> At 08:43 AM 5/7/1998 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >Horace Greeley wrote:
> >
> >> David,
> >>
> >> Probably just about everyone who has used any of these
> >> parts has this problem, potentially.
> >>
> >> For all of it's highly touted superiority, hornbeam, as used
> >> in (most) piano parts these days, has some (to me, anyway)
> >> serious drawbacks, the two worst offendors being mass
> >> and porosity.
> >
> >I'm relieved to find that there is at least one other human out there who
> does not share
> >Renner's high -- at least in public -- opinion of hornbeam. There will be
> more in time.
> >For all of its faults, give me maple any day.
> >
> >-- ddf
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Horace Greeley, CNA, MCP, RPT
>
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>
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