CA wake up for me.

[Richard Snelson]

Alan,
Treated several loose pins in a grand in the middle of last summer.  They
tightened up very nicely. Winter came and it was very dry in my shop. One
pin came loose so fast it pushed the string off the bridge and off the hitch
pin.
Doing the CA treatment in the winter while it is dry might be the best bet
for "very, very loose" pins. I've used CA for four years on many loose pins,
and have had good luck. Most pins were marginal and not as above. Headed
past St. James tomorrow for Branson, "Alison Krauss" show and bass fishing
on Table Rock. We will stop at the "Snelson Historical Cabin" on Route 8
Steelville on the way back. Built by my Great Great Grandfather in 1834.
Rich

Richard Snelson
rsnelson0984@mchsi.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan" <tune4u@earthlink.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 9:58 PM
Subject: CA & Motivation was A nice thank you from a customer


> It does help, doesn't it!
>
> I have some wonderful clients who live way out in the country, 6 kids,
> homeschool, really nice people. Anyway, they are Christian marriage,
> sex, and life counselors and have published a really fine book (I'll
> post the website address here in case anyone wants to peek at the book
> and pictures of these folks http://www.christian-living.com/).
>
> When they were first married, they found an Otto Grau miniature piano
> (serial 160659, age ???, about 4'6" tall, notes from C2 to C7). It has
> sentimental value to them but the pinblock was shot, shot, shot. I had
> been shimmining individual pins, a few of the worst ones remaining on
> each tuning, but the other day I laid the piano down and poured about 6
> oz of CA into that puppy. There are communicating cracks between pins
> because I could "dope" about a dozen at a time--pour it in one hole and
> watch it fill up all the surrounding ones.
>
> I didn't have the greatest hope. Anyway, let it dry overnight and now
> measure about 60 in. lbs. in those pins! In tuning it, I was VERY
> careful to tune down slightly before pulling up to pitch--you have to
> break any glue-slop off those coils or the stings will go, DAMHIK. Some
> of those pins (including, natch, the ones I'd shimmed) were so tight I
> could barely move them.
>
> Because of this and several other experiences, I have become a BIG
> believer in the CA treatment. I don't enjoy doing it, however, what with
> the vapors and the fact that I can't seem to complete any job without
> gluing some part of my anatomy to a tool or the piano! Ha.
>
> Anyway, when I finished the job, they paid me a $25 bonus over my bill
> and gave me a copy of their book with this inscription: "Thanks for
> sharing your gift with us and helping us restore a piece of our history
> though our little piano. We appreciate you! May God continue to richly
> bless you ... " etc.
>
> Nice. One of these goes a long way to make life seem worthwhile, does it
> not?
>
> Alan R. Barnard
> Salem, MO
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hechler Family [mailto:dahechler@charter.net]
> Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 10:38 PM
> To: pianotech
> Subject: A nice thank you from a customer
>
>
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [DISCUSS] Thank You
> Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 16:39:13 -0500
> From: Bill Bronson <gusukube@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
> Reply-To: discuss@sluug.org
> To: <discuss@sluug.org>
>
>
>
> Hi Duane,
>     I had a concert pianist stop by to visit, and he greatly
> complimented the tuning job you did on my Cable piano. That instrument
> has never sounded better, and continues to draw compliments from people
> who are better equipped than me to make that judgment. Thanks again for
> your fine work.
>
> Bill Bronson
>
> -- 
> Duaine Hechler
> Piano, Player Piano, Organ, Pump Organ
> Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding
> Associate Member of the Piano Technicians Guild
> Reed Organ Society Member
> St. Louis, MO 63034
> (314) 838-5587
> dahechler@charter.net
>
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