[CAUT] Seiler Flexing

Avery Todd ptuner1 at gmail.com
Sun Apr 26 15:34:03 PDT 2009


Why would the wheels still be on the truck? <grin>

Avery Todd

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Keith Roberts <keithspiano at gmail.com>wrote:



>  The wheels could be trying to roll away from each other. This might cause
> the case to flex.
>
>
> Keith Roberts
>
>   On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Richard Murphy <rmurphy at siue.edu>wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>    I service a Seiler Grand 9' at a neighboring college and yesterday they
>> put it on a piano truck because the large brass wheels were marking up the
>> newly installed hard wood flooring.  The piano has always been quite nice
>> and fills the room well, an "A" frame sanctuary.  After they put the piano
>> on the truck, I went in to tune it as I tune this piano about every other
>> week,mostly just small touch ups and a unison here and there.  Two things
>> were very different now.  First, the music desk slide out easily, it used
>> to
>> be as tight fit, and the back length of A3 was now touching the plate and
>> buzzing.  I weaved felt through the strings in that area to stop the
>> buzzing, but I'm concerned about the piano flexing on this truck.  Is that
>> possible?  Could it keep flexing more?  Any one have a similar situation?
>> Thanks,
>> Richard J. Murphy
>> SIUE
>>
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