new refinishing idea

Farrell mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
Sun, 9 Feb 2003 07:49:05 -0500


So tell us. Did you tune it, do a little putting, or just run?

Just when you thought you may have seen everything. I'm trying to picture a good tech's face upon opening this lid. Good Grief!

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Jankura" <kenrpt@earthlink.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 10:43 PM
Subject: new refinishing idea


> I tuned a piano yesterday that was a first. It had been restrung 'on the
> cheap' somewhere through a music store. How do I know? Beckets weren't
> squeezed in and the wound strings on the tenor bridge were probably too much
> bother and too much expense so they just used plain wire :-(   (small Stieff
> grand). But the real find was the refinishing. The entire inner rim was
> covered in green felt! When I opened it up, I wasn't sure whether to tune it
> or shoot craps :-)
> 
> Ken Jankura RPT
> Fayetteville PA
> 
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