Ca pin block repair-broken tuning pin

[Don]

Hi Tom,

That's why CA makes sense--they are often not work the resources it would
require to do them "properly". Not many would wish to oversize pin and
restring an ancient 42" upright. The benefit to the client is not *there*.


At 09:32 PM 9/14/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On
>Behalf Of Don
>Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 6:35 PM
>To: Pianotech
>Subject: Re: Ca pin block repair-broken tuning pin
>
>Hi Andre,
>
>CA is an attempt to get a few more years out of an "old beater" that
>should
>really be totally rebuilt. I.E. keep the case, the plate and the wooden
>frame(s) and replace everything else.
>
><SNIP>
>	
>	Don,
>	I'm getting off topic, but in my opinion "old beaters" like the
>stencil grand in my original post should not be rebuilt. They were built
>to a price, served their purpose, in some cases can still be decent
>instruments, but in my opinion should not be rebuilt. 
>	I realize that they CAN be rewhatevered, and made serviceable
>again, but why not save the effort ,resources and customers money for
>purchase or work on an instrument with more upside?
>	Keep them going with repair-reconditioning?
>	By all means yes (CA repair a case in point) but new blocks,
>boards' strings and actions? 
>	Maybe I'm getting older and want to focus my time on finer
>instruments, but with all the Stieffs, Krakauers, Conovers, Sohmers and
>others out there why not focus on them and let the no name cheaply made
>and poorly designed grand's die a natural death when our best repair
>efforts will no longer keep them going...
>     Getting off my soapbox
>	Respectfully
>	Tom Driscoll RPT
>
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Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.

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