S&S D Duplex

[Farrell]

Nothing new here on my end. There are some baaaaaad pianos in this world my friend. And they never die......they just slowly disintegrate. And I think they approach the end asymptotically. The number of years they exist in an advanced state of wear and still get plunked every once in a while far exceeds the number of musical years.

Condemned two piano today. A first for me. 1955 Cable-Nelson Spinet & 1892 Mehlin upright. The Mehlin was neat. It had agraffes right up to C8, but the agraffe was in place of the pressure bar. There was a standard "V" bar on the speaking side of the agraffes. Interesting.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@cox.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: S&S D Duplex


> 
> >C8 -- 1 second
> >C7 -- 2 seconds ??
> >C6 -- 3.5 seconds ?????
> >C5 -- 5 seconds ??????????
> >
> >Surely you jest ?
> 
> Nope.
> 
> 
> >I have never run into any piano of any sort with a C6 sustain
> >time of just 3.5 seconds. Not even close.