This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Z! Reinhardt=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 7:59 AM Subject: Spread-Cheeks Wurlie Hi Everyone! =20 Just for the amusement value .... =20 Have any of you tried servicing a "Juke-Box" style Wurlitzer spinet? = Shall we say politely, that getting the thing opened up for servicing = was counter-intuitive at best. When all was said and done short of = smashing case parts, the sides which curved around and formed about 2/3 = of the front swung outward giving it the "spread-cheeks" look. = Comically strange. =20 Too bad the piano itself was nothing to write home about -- bad = pinblock, blown-out bridges, etc. ... clinically dead but it was an = heirloom so I did what I could to improve it without blowing out the = budget. (Sorry -- I didn't have a camera with me. Maybe next time.) =20 Z! Reinhardt RPT Ann Arbor MI diskladame@provide.net Yes, Wurtilizer [sic] had a bad reputation for making pianos that were = difficult to get into, having panels that were Chinese puzzles to = remove, etc., then they changed that (not 'til the 70's or 80's) and ran = an ad campaign in the Journal showing how they were now "open for = business". The thing I hate on most Wurlies is the "ledge" or "shelf" = in the plate casting that prevents getting a temerament strip in very = far, especially just above the mid-treble break. =20 Then there are the pianos (maybe not all of them Wurlitzers) that = have the non-full length bottom panel. You can get to the pedals to = adjust lost motion all right, but if a pedal rod (dowel) comes off a = trap lever, or if you have to remove trap levers for any reason, they're = a long awkward reach thru the cobwebs in the dark to get at!! David = Nereson, RPT, Denver ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/ce/43/79/a1/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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