This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Good points there, Richard, there are certainly a lot of idiosyncratic = design aspects in so many pianos - and many of them are shared. That = Broadwood desk removal is a beaut though isn't it? Then there's the old = Bluthner desk with the candle boards that suddenly slide forward with a = crash as the desk is removed - quite scary to the uninitiated! The = Chappell concert grands of the early 20th century share with Bechsteins = the little touch sticker connected via a centre pin in a rocking = adjustable block attached to the keys - meaning the upper action doesn't = come away from the keyboard without every single key being = disconnected.... etc. etc. Maybe there's room for a special posting for these idiosyncratic gems! Regards from a sunny sunset in The Village Michael G.(UK) ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Byeway222@aol.com=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 6:21 PM Subject: Re: Moving from Uprights to Grands Hi Michael & List, First of all, my apologies for sounding a bit 'priggish' over the = muting strip business. But it really is an issue here. As Michael = points out these things are discussed in the PTA conventions, and I = imagine it is a brave 'tested' member of PTA who admits to using = temperament muting. Another learning curve certainly involves first visiting grand pianos = as a novice tuner. Yet another situation of being thown in a the deep = end sometimes. I vividly remember my first experience, on my own, = trying to replace a S&S pedal lyre with the owner watching! Another = situation was being unable to remove the music desk from an older = Broadwood grand because I hadn't been told about the hidden little notch = in the runners. The tiny (sometimes almost invisible) screws holding = the key fall into its slots can be another pitfall for the novice too. = I think that all technicians' training programmes should have a module = on all the common piano makes with idiosyncratic design aspects. Ric ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/37/1f/2b/40/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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