Aha! was flat facts

[ilex cameron ross]

This is very true, to their credit. It's going to be interesting to watch
these pianos as they age.

}-----Original Message-----
}From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
}Behalf Of Avery Todd
}Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 5:33 PM
}To: Pianotech
}Subject: RE: Aha! was flat facts
}
}
}The grands aren't too bad with a lot of good prep work, but those verticals
}put the Baldwin tight pin syndrome to shame! :-) But Mark is a nice guy and
}will definitely work with you on any kind of real problem you might have!
}I really appreciate that.
}
}Avery
}
}At 03:55 PM 3/27/05, you wrote:
}>I feel ya on that, Avery - the shop I work for now carries the new Pearl
}>Rivers.
}>Bain. Of. My. Existence.
}>-ilex
}>
}>}-----Original Message-----
}>}From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
}>}Behalf Of Avery Todd
}>}Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 3:29 PM
}>}To: Pianotech
}>}Subject: Re: Aha! was flat facts
}>}
}>}
}>}IMHO, there is no way on God's green earth that the tuning pins I "tried"
}>}to turn
}>}on 4 Pearl River verticals a couple of weeks ago are going to be turned
}>}backwards
}>}with the mere tension on the wire compared to the tension inside
}>}the block!
}>}No way! :-)
}>}I hurt and was wishing for an impact hammer when I got through!
}>}
}>}Avery
}>}
}>}
}>}>>I still go with turning pins, though. There is a natural,
}>}sustained tension
}>}>>on the pin from the string that would love to turn the thing
}>}>>counter-clockwise. Earth tremors, children thudding across the
}>}floor, sonic
}>}>>booms, moving the piano, and hovering ufo's would all put
}>}vibration into the
}>}>>system, however briefly, and the pin could jiggle just a a third
}>}of a skinny
}>}>>hair each time. But over the years ...
}>}>
}>}>Is that a guess, a supposition, or an opinion? Just asking, since
}>}the same
}>}>rules ought to apply to us all.
}>}>Ron N
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