[CAUT] When to restring...

Kent Swafford kswafford at gmail.com
Wed Aug 4 15:46:03 MDT 2010


If the '04 was ever rebuilt, it was long enough ago that there is little evidence of it. A dreadful piano all around at this point. We might rebuild it; we'll see.

K

On Aug 4, 2010, at 4:21 PM, Paul T Williams wrote:

> Sorry, Kent! <G> 
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> How is the '04?  Not a bad instrument if its been rebuilt properly....  Our oldest is a 1911 model A that I just totally rebuilt 2 years ago.  A really nice piano now... 
> Paul 
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> From:	Kent Swafford <kswafford at gmail.com>
> To:	caut at ptg.org
> Date:	08/04/2010 03:50 PM
> Subject:	Re: [CAUT] When to restring...
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> I cannot imagine having "fairly new" pianos at school. In a few days we will finally be taking a 1904 Steinway A out of service from a voice studio. We will be replacing it with, uh, an 1881 Steinway A in much better condition than the 1904 instrument. That's my world. 
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> Kent 
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> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Jim Busby <jim_busby at byu.edu> wrote: 
> Kent,
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> True. I forgot about the shop days at home! (Replaced a bunch there) But here at BYU the pianos are fairly new so we never need new ones, except the occasional one broken upon removal. I’m spoiled here…
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> Jim
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> From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Kent Swafford
> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 8:05 PM
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> To: caut at ptg.org
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] When to restring...
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> There can be plenty of reasons to replace agraffes. Never say never; you obviously haven't seen some of the hopeless agraffes that have come through my shop.
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> Kent
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> On Aug 3, 2010, at 12:39 PM, Jim Busby wrote:
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> We never replace agraffes, mainly because we refurbish them like Paul Revenko-Jones does. WAY better than new ones because new ones aren’t shaped correctly either. Waste of time to just replace them.
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