This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Howdy all, Back again to the Seiler, model 240, 8' (I think) grand. This piano is = becoming a pain. Grr... History: I took care of it (when it was new) for 2 or 3 years before I = moved away in 1995. The piano is memorable to me because a bass string = broke while tuning, flew out of the piano, across the room and hit a = fancy armoire. Another time a treble wire broke while tuning. Voicing = was done with each tuning to keep the brightness under control, but I = still ended up having to mute the first three notes of the 1st treble = section duplex because of bleed through. =20 While I was gone, another technician (the tune and run, type, I'm = afraid) tuned it regularly. The string breakage got worse. Eventually, = the owner sent the piano to a shop to get restrung, have the hammers = reshaped and the action regulated. =20 2005: When I moved back to the area, the customer contacted me and = wanted me to resume servicing the piano, it hadn't been serviced since = the restringing and regulation was done on it (maybe 9 months?). The first time I serviced the piano I nearly fainted because plastic and = acetone had been used on these already very hard hammers. But, I = noticed that there was no bleed through in the 1st treble section and = assumed whatever the problem was, had been taken care of when it was = restrung. I ended up doing some hammer shaping which seems to have = taken care of the plastic sound and I used hammer softener on the = shoulders so I could get my needles in. This opened up the sound = somewhat, relieving some of the thin nasal quality of the voicing. = (The customer requested a big voicing session before trying new = hammers). Though its a lot better than it was, I'm still not very = impressed with this instrument. Between the 2nd & 3rd service calls (scheduled every three months) the = bleed through returned--in the exact same spot. I did everything I know = (except removing the strings and having a look at the v-bar), and in = spite of a fairly mellow voice (for these hammers) I still ended up = weaving cloth into the front duplex. =20 Is this a case of a defective v-bar? Does that happen? If so, can = something be done about it? Actually, I think the owner is considering = getting a different instrument because of this and the past string = breakage problem. =20 BTW, I asked if he had ever had a string breakage problem with any other = instruments he had owned and the answer was no. He reported to me that = when he talked to someone at Seiler about the string breakage, they said = it was because the tuner was not letting down the string tension first = before tuning. Gosh, I only do that when I suspect a problem = piano--have I been tuning the wrong way all these years? Thanks for your thoughts, Barbara Richmond, RPT ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/ca/94/8c/55/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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