Always Something New!

[Avery Todd]

Ooh, Barbara. You're so baaaaad! :-)

Avery

At 01:47 PM 3/27/05, you wrote:
>Why?  So they'd be out there to aggravate Joe Garrett!
>
>:-)
>
>Barbara Richmond
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Avery Todd" <avery1@houston.rr.com>
>To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 1:31 PM
>Subject: RE: Always Something New!
>
>
>>Wow! Why????? :-(
>>Avery
>>At 07:46 AM 3/27/05, you wrote:
>>>Avery:
>>>
>>>APSCO used to sell 7/0 tuning pins!
>>>
>>>dp
>>>
>>>David M. Porritt
>>>dporritt@smu.edu
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On
>>>Behalf Of Avery Todd
>>>Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 8:51 PM
>>>To: pianotech
>>>Subject: Always Something New!
>>>
>>>List,
>>>
>>>I thought after almost 30 yrs., I'd seen just about everything. :-)
>>>
>>>Today, I was working on an old Baldwin grand (# 6030, I think) and
>>>discovered
>>>it had 6/0 pins! I knew they were out there, but I've never used them
>>>and
>>>wouldn't even consider it, actually! It also sounded like it had
>>>concrete
>>>hammers and the lady who had to play on it, just hated it! I couldn't
>>>imagine
>>>why! :-)
>>>
>>>Whoever "worked" on this piano however many years ago, didn't have a
>>>clue about
>>>hammer traveling! They were going every which way! One particularly bad
>>>one I
>>>took off the rail and there was a fairly thick sandpaper shim under the
>>>flange.
>>>When I took it off and reinstalled the hammer, it was really crooked!
>>>Obviously,
>>>he'd tried to straighten up a badly glued hammer by shimming. No matter
>>>what it
>>>did to the traveling. No hammer I took off had any traveling paper there
>>>except
>>>for the above problem! I think I spent almost 3 hrs. straightening out
>>>all
>>>that
>>>mess! Amazing! :-(
>>>
>>>Sorry. Just venting a little. But at least, after finishing with it, she
>>>
>>>seemed
>>>to love it! But what a way to spend an Easter Saturday! Oh well, I can
>>>pay
>>>another bill or two now! :-)
>>>
>>>Avery
>>>
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