Wally helped me do my first set of grand hammers a while back. I mentioned in a post about first-time hammer hanging that Mr. Brooks helped me quite a bit. I wish I were better with words. You said what meant to say! So one big DITTO! from me! Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leslie W Bartlett" <lesbart1@juno.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 2:30 PM Subject: hanging hammers > With what little information I had, I asked Wally Brooks to bore a set of > hammers for an Acrosonic, way up in the Hollars of West Virginia. I got > up there, saw there were 93, which gave me some leeway in which I used. > Thinking to be smart, I started at 88, the most difficult section, and > came downward. Well, allowing for a few 'extras', I came up short before > tenor bass bridge. Not enough treble hammers!!!! Oh was I in trouble. > Just for good measure, I screwed up another thing or two in the > process, which I'll not publicly describe, as I can stand only so much > humiliation in a single day.................. > > I called Wally, expecting to get a robot, as this was right before > convention time, and he VERY GRACIOUSLY told me that one solution would > be to move all the treble hammers down - but as I said, I'd managed to > make another screw up in process- but he decided he'd send me a few extra > hammers 2nd day air so I could save my hind end before having to race > back to Houston. > > Chatting with another tech about yet another job I'd never done before, I > mentioned the Wally incident, and he said, "Yea, Wally saves a whole lot > of people from their stupidity, and is very gracious abou it." > > So, having learned scads of lessons I never wanted to learn, I've hung my > first set of vertical hammers successfully, thanks to the unmerited > kindness of Wally Brooks, who didn't even hint that I should have never > publicly admit the level of idiocy to which I sank, and I would like to > publicly express my greatest appreciation and admiration of this quiet > person who spends little time tooting his horn, and, evidently, spending > a lot of time, energy, and money, salvaging inexperienced neophytes from > their incredibly limited capabilities, when, suddenly, they're up to > their rears in alligators, and have forgotten their original job was to > drain the swamp. > > Many ongoing thanks, and life long loyalty to the quality of Wally Brooks > products, and his gracious assistance in salvaging what would have been a > sincere disaster. > Sincerely > Les Bartlett > Houson > ________________________________________________________________ > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. >
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