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Alright David, but that's not fair :

I'll put my question even more clear now (geeeeeeezzz)  :

If you had the choice : you can get (for free) a brand new gorgeous 
Steinway D and you can get (for free) a gorgeous hundred year old 
Steinway D...

Now what?

EAR



On 18-jan-05, at 22:01, David Renaud wrote:

> Someone asked..........
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> If you had the choice : you can get a brand new
> Steinway D and you can get a hundred year old Steinway
> D...
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> New Steinway D story.
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>    Delivered new to a conservatory in Montreal,
>  Complaints, led eventually to Steinway sending
> somebody. They are still not happy. Two years
> into this they give it away to a satellite
> conservatory
> in Hull, Quebec....rejected.
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>    Marcel from Quebec city came to work on it for a
> day. What a great technician. Seat string, level,
> hammer mating, voicing, he did a wonderful job.
> Showed me those string couplers....pitch lock on the
> duplex side to eliminate false beats, improve tone
> and tune the duplex to the second partial.
> Great technician, showed me some great stuff, piano
> sounds much better.
>
>    A few days later....buzz buzz on a note, it goes
> away. Another day appears on a different note, Bad
> buzz. There had been complains about buzzes...they
> seem to come and go.
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>    I looked, and looked, and looked.
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>    Not the damp chaser, not a paper clip or something
> on the board......not a loose screw in the action,
> damper guide rail.....and looked, and looked.
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>    When all else is eliminated, what remains must
> be true.
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>    Reaching deep in the cavity with a rubber mute
> under the piano, at the soundboard rim at the belly
> rail..... a good reach in a narrow space on this piano
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> ...crunch crunch crunch like giant corn flakes.
> Glass like glue. It had oozed out at that
> joint when the soundboard was clamped down and
> hardened in thin shards, some touching the soundboard.
> I broke off shards 3, 4 inches long and one inch wide.
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> Still more in there I am sure, must devise some funny
> mirrors, and a strong light to get a look in there.
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> Years of bad rep. from not cleaning up a hidden glue
> joint.
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>   I also noticed from the move, sawdust....small wood
> chips had been dislodged and moved around on the board
> and behind the bass bridge ..... I believe it was not
> cleaned up very well before it left production.
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>   Interesting.....I only service three 9 foot
> Steinway's. There are a few interesting things to note
> on each of them. Things I would have not expected.
> Keeping track....
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>    Now the one imperial bosse I am tuning.....WOW.
> I want one......make that two.
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>                            Cheers
>                            Dave Renaud
>                            RPT
>                            Canada
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