I have a bone to pick with anyone that tries to put an old worn out spinet in the junkyard. These are universally wonderful objects (except the ones made of particle board). Recently, I turned one into the best, most solid, musical (you should hear it when you drop a wrench on it!) regulating table I have ever seen (pictures available - I wish I knew how to do a sound clip). Today, I will be putting up a couple shelves in my shop - one narrow one (the lid to a Lester spinet), and one wide one (the kneeboard from same). I was eyeing the hinged fallboard this morning - it's gonna make a handy fold-away shelf - not sure for what yet. Please, help these beauties continue their timeless service! Terry Farrell Piano Tuning & Service Tampa, Florida mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@KSCABLE.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 11:10 AM Subject: Re: Pilgram's Progress, (was electric) > > Am I the only one that wanted to specialize, even to the exclusion > >of the smallest, least costly pianos? > >Regards to all, > >Ed Foote RPT > > > Of course not. Everyone, regardless of that they currently say or think > they think, slogs through some aspects of their business that they would > like to scrape off once and for all. It's just not in us to be entirely > happy with anything we have or do. For me, from a service standpoint, it's > the old dead pianos of any size or shape. I don't have physical problems > relating to any particular piano type (except squares), so it's not a > vertical/grand thing for me, and there are altogether too many "grands" out > there that aren't. If it's no longer reasonably serviceable, or never has > been since birth (even if it's right off the factory delivery truck), let's > send it back, rebuild it, or add it to the crappie shelter. I'm not > interested in trying to reanimate corpses, but I'll give my best shot to an > honest resurrection - with someone else doing the refinishing. > > I never much cared for studio work either. Those folks are DEEPLY wacked. > > > Ron N >
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