Customizing a piano

[Stéphane Collin]

What if you were a boy ?

You’d be kicked out immediately, without all that interest.

Don’t ask how I know.

 

Anon.

 

 

From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Tom Servinsky
Sent: mercredi 2 juillet 2008 12:29
To: Pianotech List
Subject: Re: Customizing a piano

 

Alicia

I have been following your comments for the past several months. The core of
your comments ( and your admitted sharp tongue) suggest that you are looking
for dialogue,debate, ideas, and not friendship within the piano tech
community. With all due respect, and I say this with us much restraint as
that I can muster, and as a father of 4 girls who text me back and forth
using the same shortcut lingo, if you want this community to view you as
something more than a 14 yr pimply-faced ,immature,little brat, I beg of you
to clean up your presentation. Write with accepted sentence structure and
above all, guard yourself against the personal bomb throwing insults.

You will not be taken seriously if you continue your dialogues in the "text
message" mode. You especially will not be taken seriously if you continue to
pick fights with your "sharp tongue"  for the sake of picking a fight..

The old adage of judging a book by the cover plays homage to the fact that
the majority of this list have a hard time finding you a credible individual
for debate and insight. If you want your ideas and comments to resonate
positively within this list I beg of you to clean up your shtick and resist
the urges to act out. You are only digging the hole deeper and deeper.

Tom Servinsky

----- Original Message ----- 

From: A E <mailto:eve_ane at hotmail.co.uk>  

To: Pianotech List <mailto:pianotech at ptg.org>  

Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 10:17 PM

Subject: RE: Customizing a piano

 

well Willem, if u think this is april fools, fly out to philadelphia and
have a look at my piano and what ive done to it urself :-) u might like it,
its a very pleasant little thing... also noisy accodring to my neighbours...
i wrote it simply to ask about the experiments i do with my piano, an what
people might think about them...
 
alicia




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To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: Customizing a piano
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 20:57:47 -0400
From: wimblees at aol.com

April fools was two months ago :)

Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
Piano Tuner/Technician
Honolulu, HI
808-349-2943
www.bleespiano.com
Author of 
The Business of Piano Tuning
available from Potter Press
www.pianotuning.com



-----Original Message-----
From: A E <eve_ane at hotmail.co.uk>
To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 5:18 am
Subject: Customizing a piano

Hello all, 
 
I have recently crossed a customer who asked me to make some custom changes
to his S&S model B. Such as raising the lyre height alittle (he says he has
big feet and its unfomfortable for him to use the height set), so i found a
couple of big guys with hairy palms to lift the piano, and put some larger
casters in, which raised the piano by about almost an inch, which he said
was just right.... That got me thinking... I'm 6ft tall (unfortunately) and
one of the pianos I have, the keybed was so low i couldnt fit my knees
underneath and it was a very... shall we say loosly uncomfortable experience
playing it, as well as the same problem as the customer, i have biger feet
than most and pedal height was unfomfortable, so i took up larger grand
sized casters. The piano im talking about is a  43inch console which i wrote
about before, (the one i fell in love with). But after i carried away on a
spree with customizing it for myself, i changed entire regulation, let off
is not set at about 3mm in bass and 5mm in trebble, basically as close as it
will get without bouncing, put on a very tight set of hammer springs, and
made a drastic change of puting in a set of hammers that normally would go
into a 290 Bösey... Adjusting capstains i didnt leave the hammer resting on
the hammer rest rail, instead, i adjusted them so that theyr about 5mm off
the rail, in other words the butt is resting on the jack. (adjusted the
action brakets to make sure hammers keep the same blow distance as if they
were rested on the rail)... Shokingly the action became as heavy as on a new
grand piano.. however, it has also became intensely sencitive, and
repetition is fast and clean (atleast as far as i can play).... it almost
feels like im playing my old Bosey 290... 
While i was as it i lubricated center pins and front rail pins with some oil
for guns... yes for guns :-)... and i was astonished and what a diference
this experiment made....
Now my question is, is making such experiments ok? and if so why dont most
manufacturers today who make good quality uprights dont mess around more
with the actions they make?
 
 
Alicia Evans
Philadelphia


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