[CAUT] back checks

[Jeff Tanner]

back checksHi David,
Even if they do screw off, the predrilled backchecks might not fit the wires. I have one of these Es in my clientele, but I won't have a chance to inspect the backchecks any time soon. 

Lovely instrument, except that tuning the bass scares me to death. Several single unisons have been broken (two under my own hand), and they all feel like they could pop with the next budge of the pin.  There's nothing scarier than the sound and action of a long double-wound string breaking, and I almost want to buy a motorcycle helmet and shield when I tune that piano. The way the front understring felt is on the Bechstein, you can't put a knot in the string above the agraffe without ripping the felt to shreds, so I've had to have them duplicated, which leaves those notes out of tune more than in.
Jeff
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Ilvedson 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org ; caut at ptg.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 8:21 PM
  Subject: [CAUT] back checks


  List,

  I forgot to check, but does anyone know if a Bechstein E, Concert Grand has backchecks that screw off?   I saw it for the first time last week and the back leather had been replaced with backrail cloth... '-[   I would like to just screw on new backchecks if possible...these were really small backchecks...maybe an inch long...

  Thanks in advance

  David Ilvedson, RPT
  Pacifica, CA 94044
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