Weber Action Brackets?

[Porritt, David]

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment
Terry:

=20

There's no chance that you'll get replacement brackets in time for the
party (unless the party is in late 2006)!  You'll just have to do a
quick regulation of the letoff adjusting them on the "safe" side for the
party.  Try to get the brackets and then set up an appointment when they
come in.

=20

Weber is no longer in the piano business and YC is in some kind of
limbo, so be sure to have a good understanding of who is paying for the
installation and regulation when you finally do get brackets. =20

=20

dp

=20

David M. Porritt

dporritt@smu.edu

________________________________

From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On
Behalf Of Terry
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 2:18 PM
To: pianotech@ptg.org
Subject: Weber Action Brackets?

=20

Was a ten-year-old Weber grand made by Young Chang?

=20

When was the YC growing action bracket widely known? Was it general
knowledge within PTG circles as far back as 1997?

=20

Got a call from a lady who has a 10-15-yo Weber grand. She will be
having a party in 2-1/2 weeks and will be hiring a professional pianist
to play. The piano has not been touched in many years. We made an
appointment for two days before the party - although she expressed
concern about being sure the piano was playable - what if it needs
repairs - I told her not too many 10-yo pianos will need major repairs.

=20

About five seconds after hanging up, I remembered this was likely a YC
and potentially from the growing action bracket years. I called her back
and asked her to play all the notes for me. Sounded like at least a few
of them were blocking (or at least something very bad). She told me
another tech had "completely redone" the action 8 years ago (such major
repairs that he had to "send it out"), but the tech had since passed
away. I just happened to have the records for that tech, and sure enough
back in '97 he has notes about an "action repair" and "action
regulation" for this piano - but no details regarding exactly what the
repairs were.

=20

So being that we might be looking at a bracket replacement job, we moved
the appointment up to this Thursday to hopefully allow for needed
repairs. If anyone can provide me a heads-up on my couple questions, I
sure would appreciate it.

=20

BTW, the only reason I am reasonably well informed about the YC action
bracket situation is this Pianotech List. Thanks all.

=20

Terry Farrell


---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/23/e2/1c/37/attachment.htm

---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--