words technical w/piano question

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Sigh, another screw loose? Oh well I guess thats how it goes <G>
Joe Goss
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@cox.net>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: words technical w/piano question


>
> >As I near the end of my January bulk tunings, I again have been noticing
a
> >curious thing.  On grand music racks, Why is it that, if there are two
> >hinges attaching the rack to the shelf, and the screws are loose - it is
> >almost always true that the loose ones will be on the top half of one
> >hinge and the bottom of the other.  Hardly ever on both sides of the same
> >hinge.
> >
> >Is it a fizziks thing, or just me...
> >
> >Conrad Hoffsommer - Music Technician
>
>
> Loose screws? It's just you, Conrad.
>
> Tuning ten times the number of pianos outside of universities than inside,
> I find ten times the loose screws inside than out. I'm not entirely sure
> what that means, but there it is. Being a contract tech, rather than
> official inventory, I only see the pianos a couple of times a year. By
> then, one or the other music desk hinges is no longer loose - it's
detached
> or missing altogether, and the other is torn apart by the daily clever
> attempts to get it to support fifteen pounds of whatever all by it's
> lonesome. I'm getting pretty good at hinge blacksmithing in practice rooms
> using just the tools in my case. You know - forge, anvil, etc.
>
> I take a(nother) lyre back tomorrow, that was bifurcated by the clever
> moving techniques of whatever portion of the maintenance staff happened to
> be available for the last move. It's an S&S B, and yet another lyre stick
> incidentally  evaporated in the process. I'm beginning to think it's time
> to tool up to make these things, since I'm running out of old beat-up
> salvage replacements. It doesn't look that tough.
>
> Ron N
>
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