Do you folks think that this has much to do with those wonderful microwaved glue joints? Call me old fashioned but I'd rather take the time with a slow curing glue! Greg Mark Cramer wrote: > How about a complicated solution? I had mentioned previously the Kawai UST-7 > (an otherwise amazing studio piano, IMHO) as being especially susceptable to > this problem, and had several others echo the same findings. The irony is > the UST (including 5's thru 8's) is built very well for moving in every > other respect; superb steel frame, double wheel castors, etc. > > I had intended to ask Don Mannino if there was an awareness as to why the > UST's rack so easily. I recall seeing creative back re-inforcement for > back-post-less uprights, detailed on the PTJ reprint CD. It involved > gusseting the back of the piano with a patterned sheet of plywood. > > The question remains whether the floor is the (greater) culprit, or the > piano's cabinet? > Has everyone re-acquainted (and re-glued) at least one old upright back to > it's estranged cabinet sides? :>) > > Mark Cramer, > Brandon University > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-caut@ptg.org [mailto:owner-caut@ptg.org]On Behalf Of > kam544@flash.net > Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 3:33 PM > To: caut@ptg.org > Subject: need ideas > > Dear List, > > I recently have discovered a problem with unlevel floors in some university > classrooms causing the pianos to go out of tune when moved only a few > inches from the tuning location. > > Other than requesting the pianos not be moved, are there any other > corrective measures or ideas that someone has employed with any success? > > Thank you, > > Keith McGavern, RPT > Oklahoma Baptist University > Saint Gregory's University > Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA -- Greg Newell Greg's Piano Forté 12970 Harlon Ave. Lakewood, Ohio 44107 216-226-3791 mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net
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