No one is responding..... Not sure why. I have finished the piano. I loosened the springs as much as I could to still get good damping and decent touchweight. The touchweight did end up acceptable, but a little heavy (I did not measure it with gram weights). The piano IS really nice. NOT just another old upright. Steinways are great. It was BADLY neglected, I had to repin almost the whole action (jacks were horrible) including lots of new bushing cloth. If I had to do it over again, I would have insisted that the customer buy new parts rather than repin. I did not realize how much was needed. I hung new hammers on it, new double flanges and worked with everything else original. One thing I would caution you on is that the bushings in the flanges I used were not glued in at all and when pinning them many of the bushings popped out. (from Wally Brooks) I used the Renner glue/graphite impregnated cloth and sized with Methanol on those, but it was all very time consuming. The article this month on this seems good and I will try this next time. Alignment of the hammers was the least of my problems on this job though. I lost $, but great satisfaction to have resurrected it-it was the instrument that Moses Hogan (getting well known around the world for his choral work) had as a young man. Lance Lafargue, RPT New Orleans Chapter Covington, LA. lafargue@iamerica.net ---------- > From: JIMRPT <JIMRPT@aol.com> > To: pianotech@ptg.org > Subject: Re: Steinway Double flanges/touchweight > Date: Tuesday, January 13, 1998 7:38 PM > > Lance; > I am getting ready to start the rebuild of a Model 'V', serial #181095, and > would like to know how your problem with the spring tension turns > out....perhaps I can head it off at the pass :-) > Jim Bryant (FL)
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