[CAUT] Friday vent

[Porritt, David]

Conrad:

That kind of thinking (or lack thereof) runs me nuts too.  As a result
my tendency is to install the parts I think are right while keeping my
mouth shut.  If they rave about the results later I'll tell them what
they are otherwise only Ray Negron and I know what's there.  

I just ordered a set of bass strings for a "B" from James Arledge.  I do
believe in supplier confidentiality!

dave

David M. Porritt
dporritt at smu.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
Conrad Hoffsommer
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 1:14 PM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: [CAUT] Friday vent

Frenns,

just had a little talk with my department head/piano prof. arghhh...
(pulled me out of a practice room regulation to pull up two unisons on
his 
studio D)

while in his room we got onto how i was progressing on the weekly todo 
list. Two items were to be voicing and regulation on  a B and an SF10,
with 
rebushing of the SF10.

voicing was not just voicing - major filing needed on both - both need
new 
hammers -some of the keys [on both] are moving nicely with 42gm!! - down
to 
pure lacquer - we agreed that they needed new hammers

Then the mystique hit.......

I screwed up and mentioned that I wanted to put Wurzen hammers on them
both.

You'd think I'd just blasphemed everything in the world and impuned his 
parentage! It was OK for the SF10, but NON-STEINWAY HAMMERS IN THE
B??????	

Argh...

I said I'll get just the ones for the SF and see how we like them.

Thanks for listening.

There's a choice of cold beer at home, I'll be OK.



Conrad Hoffsommer

There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them.
-Casey Stengel