Onesti key repair WAS - Re: [CAUT] RE:O's & L's & A's

[Tim Coates]

Conrad,

It takes us about 5 hours in my shop.  It can be longer if you need to 
work with the new hole a little so the friction is correct.

I found a great place to buy the poplar cheap.  $1.35 for a 1/4"x2"x4'. 
  Here's the website:

http://store.dunnlum.com/builderwire20/common/main/main.aspx

Do a search for poplar and you'll find it.  It cuts the cost of 
materials down to about $5 per set of keys.

Tim Coates

On Jan 31, 2006, at 11:27 AM, Conrad Hoffsommer wrote:

> At 10:36 AM 1/31/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>> You never know what to take seriously these days and what is ironic, 
>> but to
>> take the risk: What's so stupid about L's? I love L's, I love O's. I 
>> love
>> 6'2" A's, but I love the 6'4" better (I take care of two and have 
>> rebuilt
>> several) and wish Steinway was reintroducing that A, but they're not. 
>> I
>> predict that after a discreet period of dissing L's, a legend will 
>> arise
>> that they were the best, and the O will be under appreciated.
>>
>> Bill Schneider
>
>
> I really gotsta get out more often... This past Saturday I had my 
> first meeting with a beautifully redone 1920 "O". Very nice 
> instrument, in a very nice new house, with a very nice view 
> overlooking the Mississippi from atop a 400' bluff.  Camera(s) will 
> come out next time (foggy rain this time).
>
> It has gotten to needing regulation, but the noise problem the 
> customer wanted me to check out turns out to be chugging keys.
>
> I've got the Onesti key repair kit and have done two pianos here at 
> school with great success. (i.e. I like the kit.)  The only problem is 
> that my work on the keys was interrupted so many times that I really 
> don't have a handle on the time I spent on it.  Anybody wanna give a 
> ballpark time so's I can estimate to the owner just how much a ticket 
> to the game might be?
>
>
>
>
>
> Conrad Hoffsommer - Keyboard Technician
> Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045
> 1-(563)-387-1204 // Fax 1-(563)-387-1076
>
> - Right now, I'm hoping to live until my age matches my golf score,
> - Until then, I'll have to be content to have my IQ match my handicap.
>
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