Les, I strongly suspect that you are the only technician in the history of the industry who has ever had an "uncomplimentary opinion[s] about the previous technician"... Best. Horace >Hi, Horace. > >The piano was a late 1950's vintage with a natural wood case. Actaully >quite a nice instrrument. By using a long, flexible-blade scraper, and >a lot of patience, I was eventually able to separate the key frame from >the bed. I then scraped and sanded off the glue residue, adjusted the >glides, took care of the action problems and reassembled evrything. The >key frame exibited no warping or knock and the una corda, sostenuto and >damper pedals worked just fine. To this day I have no idea what possess- >ed that earlier tech to glue the keyframe to the keybed. Fortunately, >when I explained the problem to the piano's owner, and she saw the steam >begin to come out of my ears, she left me alone to work in peace. I think >I may have expressed a couple of uncomplimentary opinions about the pre- >vious technician, which she was better off not hearing! :-) > >Les Smith >lessmith@buffnet.net > > >some action problems. I removed the check block screws easily, and >> >then the key-slip, check blocks and fall board. No problem. Until I >> >tried to remove the action. It simply wouldn't budge. Further inves- >> >tigation revealed that a charter member of the BPTA ( Bozo Piano >> >Technicians of America) had turned the glides up all the way and then- >> >now get this--glued the keyframe to the keybed! Talk about frustration! >> >It turned some relatively routine action-work into a major PITA. And, >> >yes, my sense of frustration was clearly reflected in my bill! :-) >> > >> >Les Smith >> >lessmith@buffnet.net >> > >> >On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Avery Todd wrote: >> > >> >> Ted, >> >> >> >> I have that problem with the techs at the local S & S dealer. Every >> >> time I need to get into one of his C & A pianos, because of the "Gorilla" >> >> who tightened down the cheek block screws I have to have a "Godzilla" >> >> screwdriver to get the screws out. Can be embarrassing sometimes. I went >> >> through 3 screwdrivers once in a competition situation (each one bigger >> >> & longer) before I finally got the screws out to fix a note that wasn't >> >> working correctly. Frustrating. >> >> I told him once I was going to start charging extra any time that >> >> happened. :-) >> >> >> >> Avery >> >> >> >> > Fortunately the screws came out easily, but, you're right, >> >> >sometimes they are screwed in by a gorilla. >> >> > >> >> >Ted Simmons >> >> >> >> _____________________________________ >> >> Avery Todd, RPT >> >> Moores School of Music >> >> University of Houston >> >> 713-743-3226 >> >> atodd@uh.edu >> >> http://www.uh.edu/music/ >> >> _____________________________________ >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> Horace Greeley >> >> Stanford University >> email: hgreeley@leland.stanford.edu >> voice mail: 415.725.9062 >> LiNCS help line: 415.725.4627 >> >> >> Horace Greeley hgreeley@leland.stanford.edu "Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde LiNCS voice: 725-4627 Stanford University fax: 725-9942
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