clues to grand hammer pitch

[Barbara Richmond]

Hi Ron,

As a matter of fact, I did say to myself an "argh" of sorts--though it
probably wasn't as polite as "argh."  Ahem.

I have the feeling that at the beginning, something wasn't right,
so it was compensated for.  Then that affected something else, so that had
to be compensated for, etc., etc., ...   A lot of work was done on this
piano!  :-)

It's like that cartoon bit where the little bit of snow that turns into a
huge snowball.

Wish I had worked on some Knabes before this so I had something to compare
it to.

Thanks.

br
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: clues to grand hammer pitch


>
>
>> Yes, but I'm wondering if the stack height has been tampered with.  The
>> bore
>> length now is greater than what Ray told me it usually runs.  I'm having
>> a
>> feeling that I'm going to go through a growth spurt on this one.  Or, the
>> owner may decide to just might have me work with what is there and get it
>> to
>> play the best it can.
>
> Here be dragons. If you can't reconcile what you find the last guy left
> you to work with with what you think you can do with it to satisfy what
> the customer wants, it's a black hole. Issue a genetic re-engineering
> estimate - whatever you think it would take to build the action from
> scratch, so you know it will work, and stand back.
>
> Sometimes it's best to just say AAAArrrrrrggggghhhhhhhhhh!
> Ron N
>