This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I've been studying piano technology for ten years, on and off (I've = passed the RPT written exam), and have been tuning professionally for a = year and a half. I've applied to North Bennet St. for this fall. I was just asked to take care of an S&S D for a local community college. = It's 1917 vintage (played by Rachmaninoff at one time!), and rebuilt by = Steinway about ten years ago. It's suffering from humidity damage: 8" = crack in the soundboard behind and under the treble bridge and = elsewhere, false beats in the low tenor (loose bridge pins?), and loose = tuning pins in the bass. One or two are so loose I was tempted to mute = them, for fear they wouldn't survive a concert. Of the needed repairs, the only one's I'm qualified to do are to CA the = loose pins, which I've done successfully three times previously. I'll = happily do this on someone's no-name, 100-year-old, 4'8" neonatal grand = with rusty strings, but I want to ask for advice before doing anything = irreversible to an instrument of this caliber. I can do the repair = without side effects, I'm sure (I pull the action and use copious = amounts of plastic tarps), but still... Is the right thing to do to simply write up a report and say that it = needs a new pinblock, bridge cap, and at least epoxy in the soundboard = cracks? Or let Steinway re-evaluate it? Is it better to pull the loose = pins and shim with sandpaper or veneer rather than risking CA? Will = Steinway scoff if they get a CA'd pinblock to replace? Side note: it has a disassembled DC system... sigh... --Cy Shuster-- Bluefield, WV ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/3e/28/74/2f/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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