Everyday somthing new

[Farrell]

Oooh, that's a scary one Greg. But likely one to inquire about. Any chance the bridge/apron is pressing somewhere up against the plate?

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Newell" <gnewell@ameritech.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: Everyday somthing new


> Bill,
>     Has the customer been wiping down the strings to keep that new piano
> look? You may want to ask a leading question or two to see if anything that
> could leave a residue or any such thing was used. I can't think of any other
> reason that strings would go dead on that young of a piano.
> 
> Greg
> 
> Bill Pillmore wrote:
> 
> > Maybe someone can explain this.  I went to a customer today to give a
> > second opinion on restringing the bass section of her 20 year old 5'1""
> > Kawai grand.  What I found was the whole bass section was dead as a door
> > nail.  My first inclination was the bass bridge was coming unglued but
> > there was no indication of this. (The bass bridge where it is glued is
> > mostly under the plate and out of view.)  Putting pressure on the bass
> > bridge seemed to show it was intact.  The customer said after a normal
> > tuning from her regular tuner, the strings seemed to go dead.  The
> > technician after referring to a colleague twisted the strings and she
> > thought they sounded better for a day or so but now he is saying the
> > bass section needs to be restrung.  Although there is little bearing
> > there is some.  I tuned down a string made sure it was seated on the
> > bridge, messed around scratched my head, and retuned the string.  It
> > bounced back to life and two or three other strings did the same.
> > Before getting further involved I thought I might want to think about
> > this for a day.  I have never seen anything like this before.  Any help?
> > Bill
> 
> --
> Greg Newell
> mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net
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