I really am spoiled... (or blessed) We keep uprights 20 years and grands 30. Best, Jim From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Kent Swafford Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 1:49 PM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] When to restring... 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. Kent On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Jim Busby <jim_busby at byu.edu<mailto:jim_busby at byu.edu>> wrote: Kent, 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... Jim From: caut-bounces at ptg.org<mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org> [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org<mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org>] On Behalf Of Kent Swafford Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 8:05 PM To: caut at ptg.org<mailto:caut at ptg.org> Subject: Re: [CAUT] When to restring... 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. Kent On Aug 3, 2010, at 12:39 PM, Jim Busby wrote: 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100804/8f2de21a/attachment.htm>
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