Always Something New!

[Porritt, David]

For restringing a piano that had had 6/0s!

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: Sunday, March 27, 2005 1:32 PM
To: Pianotech
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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