Always Something New!

[Avery Todd]

And besides total ignorance, why would one do that? I won't use anything
above a 4/0. Otherwise, it needs a new block or a different technician! :-)

Avery

At 03:08 PM 3/27/05, you wrote:
>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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