Plate screws

[Kristinn Leifsson]

Monsieur Clyde



Yeah, I figured this might have puzzled a few people.
No, the number of the plate screws was just somehow typical for the rest of 
the piano.
I was a bit annoyed when I wrote the post.

This one had five screws on the front board.  It´s nothing you can´t 
handle, but it´s terribly annoying considering we see other pianos every 
day without this unimportant feature.  I had to get to the keys so to this 
I can add six screws for the fallboard, and two for the 
overthekeysthingeepardonthislackofpianovocabulary not mention the nut :)

Thirteen screws!  Twenty six screwing processes!  And I´m sure all of you 
have had to open a piano again after packing down your tools, if the owner 
points out something afterwards, or whatever.  Sure makes for annoying 
recalls if that might happen.  Maybe they did this so the owners wouldn´t 
open the piano and tamper with it.  But I think that would be the wrong way 
to think.  If the owner wants to gain comfortable access to all the hammers
so the placement of tacks on the hammers can be achieved, a few screws 
won´t help deter a sick and twisted soul of that caliber.

It should be baddabing baddaboong.

It´s okay if it´s flip, flip baddaboong.

But shshshshshshshshplop, shshshshshshshshplop, shshshshshshshshplop, 
shshshshshshshshplop, shshshshshshshshplop is a little excessive just to 
get to the parts that really need to screwed.
Not to mention the plopshshshshshshshsh, 
plopshshshshshshshsh,  plopshshshshshshshsh, 
plopshshshshshshshsh,  plopshshshshshshshsh that is inevitable in the 
closing process of said pianos.

The K´ster


At 07:26 14.6.2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Kristinn,
>
>I'm afraid you lost me here.  What does the number of plate screws have to do
>with opening and tuning a console piano?  If you meant case screws, does the
>case show signs of having been tampered with?  I don't tune many Cable
>pianos, but I can't recall that any piano with its original case calls for
>the removal of more than six screws.
>
>I can understand your amusement at the sticker.  Pianos I've seen carrying
>that sticker are generally known for their lack of craftsmanship.  But it
>probably helped the company to sell a few more pianos.  I've also come across
>spinets with a little metal tag on the fallboard proclaiming them to be
>consoles.  I guess questionable ethics run across all levels of society.
>
>Regards,
>Clyde Hollinger, RPT
>Lititz, PA, USA
>
>Kristinn Leifsson wrote:
>
> > I tuned a Cable console today.
> > Why do they have SO MANY plate screws?
> > I haven´t tuned many of those Aeolian pianos but the ones I have were
> > totally screwed... together that is.  It takes so long to just open the
> > darn things.
> >
> > I also found the non-straight "Made by American Craftsmen" sticker inside
> > quite funny ;)