Jasper American Piano

[Farrell]

Good! At least you didn't ask me to do the class! Really just a fleeting
thought (to have the class - not give it), but it could be fun! Regarding
attendance, I've gone to the last few nationals (SO, SO TOTALLY AWSOME). I
went to NC Regional last month after promising my wife that if I went to NC,
I would skip Reno next summer. I know her memory is not THAT good! Time will
tell. I'll test the waters in a few months. I certainly WANT to go. Oops,
gotta go, I hear her footsteps!    :-)

Terry Farrell
Piano Tuning & Service
Tampa, Florida
mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Allan L. Gilreath, RPT" <agilreath@mindspring.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 9:09 AM
Subject: RE: Jasper American Piano


> Terry,
>
> Laura Olsen is the Institute Director or Reno this year.  We try to keep
an
> eye on all of the great ideas that flit across the list and we'll
certainly
> take it under consideration.
>
> Are you going to attend if we run this? <grin>
>
> Allan
> Allan L. Gilreath, RPT
> Assistant Director - TEAM20001
> July 11-15, 2001 - Reno, NV
> agilreath@mindspring.com
> http://www.ptg.org/conv.htm
> Director: Laura Olsen, RPT
> Assistant Directors: Allan Gilreath, RPT - Gary Neie, RPT - Dale Probst,
RPT
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf
> Of Farrell
> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 8:33 AM
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: Jasper American Piano
>
>
> > "Instead of the high flight tune-offs between Coleman & Smith, the
> > ultimate PTG challenge might have been having a couple of our
> > superstars each uncrate one of those puppies, and after a frenzy of
> > string seating and hammer needling, see what they could turn them
> > into."
>
> Now that is an interesting thought. Give 'em maybe four to eight hours -
> anything goes - and see what they can do. I'll bet a GREAT EDUCATIONAL
> DIVIDEND would result. Are you reading this Dale Probst??? Who is running
> the show in Reno this year??? Are you reading this??? Is this an idea or
> what? Anything to increase the tolerability of some of these offensive
> little critters.
>
> Terry Farrell
> Piano Tuning & Service
> Tampa, Florida
> mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "J Patrick Draine" <draine@mediaone.net>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 7:55 AM
> Subject: Re: Jasper American Piano
>
>
> > >In a message dated 11/21/00 10:38:24 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> > >mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com writes:
> > >
> > >>Anyone ever hear of a Jasper American Piano? I tuned a 42" console
today
> > >>that was reported to be about 5 years old. It had the name of a local
> small
> > >>time piano dealer bolted/nailed/screwed/glued to the plate and to the
> > >>fallboard.
> > >
> > >The Parent corporation of Kimball is Jasper American Inc. This name was
> used
> > >to provide "exclusive" dealerships to more than one dealer in a given
> area.
> > >
> > >Its a Kimball.
> > >
> >
> > In other words, Jaspers were the extraordinarily low ball "loss
> > leader" units that dealers could have their own name plates on -- and
> > of course these units invariably had "zero prep" (at least in my
> > slight experience with them).
> > Instead of the high flight tune-offs between Coleman & Smith, the
> > ultimate PTG challenge might have been having a couple of our
> > superstars each uncrate one of those puppies, and after a frenzy of
> > string seating and hammer needling, see what they could turn them
> > into. With a new set of bass strings ( I don't know whether a
> > rescaling would improve the situation, but the quality of the sets
> > were often very poor) -- perhaps replace the "fake buckskin" with
> > real buckskin, etc. one might have a spinet or console you wouldn't
> > mind retuning annually (well, *maybe*).
> > Just a thought,
> > Patrick
> >
> >
>