Customizing a piano

[Paul T Williams]

I'm not asking for bigger imput, just bigger understanding of what we're 
telling you!  Please take our advise as trying to be helpful, not 
disrespectful.  There's a lot to learned from us old dudes! That's why we 
have this magnificent tool.

By the way, (not BTW)  I hope you have a wonderful 4th uf July and 
remember why we have it.  It's to have the freedom for all these wonderful 
insights and opinions!  I really hope you find what you're looking for on 
this list and not make a bunch of enemies.  We really want to help you get 
started.  Having 3 years at Bosey is only a start.  There's so much more 
to learn.  When I finishied studying with Steve Brady, I really only 
learned that there's so much more to learn. I realize that at your young 
age, you may think you know everything, but the more I learn in this 
business, the less I really know.  Learn from that and grow.

Respectfully.

Paul T. Williams RPT
Piano Technician
School of Music
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68588-0100
pwilliams4 at unl.edu



pw



A E <eve_ane at hotmail.co.uk> 
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I woul accept advice, except some of it simply sounds the opposite. I came 
here to seek more about pianos, not be told that you need to make a bigger 
imput.
 

Alicia


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Subject: RE: Customizing a piano
From: pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 13:49:06 -0500


Dear Alicia 

If you haven't gotten it yet...we're all trying to understand your 
situation and we're trying to give you well intentioned advise on how to 
be more professional and become a better technician. That's the whole idea 
behind the list! Many of the technicians on this list have been servicing 
pianos longer than you've been alive, and they know what they're talking 
about!.  If you can't accept constructive advice, perhaps you should think 
of another venue in which to be involved.   

Paul 





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and another thing, with all due respect, im not your niece nor you, i am 
me, and comparing me, or yourself to someone else is like sticking a 
saddle on a cow! because you dont know what else i got going now do you... 
as it was said here, stuck foot in it and person wound up being 
handicapped...
Alicia




To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: Customizing a piano
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 13:28:15 -0400
From: wimblees at aol.com

My niece was diagnosed as dyslexic when she was still in grade school. At 
first her parents and teachers thought she was mentally retarded. When it 
was diagnosed, she worked on it, and now has a doctorate in education. I 
am somewhat dyslexic. It's just a matter of applying yourself. 


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: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 4:21 pm
Subject: RE: Customizing a piano

No matter how much yu work, if your dyslexic, it aint going to happen..

Alicia



From: AlliedPianoCraft at hotmail.com
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: Customizing a piano
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 20:59:11 -0400


No one gave any of us th e "pleasure" of writing and spelling correctly, 
we had to study and learn. It wasn't pleasure! It was hard work. 
  
anon 
 
 
Original message
From: "A E" 
To: "Pianotech List" 
Received: 7/2/2008 8:40:26 AM
Subject: RE: Customizing a piano

Maybe I was a boy and now a girl, lol...

Text message mode you say, some of us arent given the pleasure of writing 
and spelling correctly or reading for that matter. I do my best!

Alicia



From: collin.s at skynet.be
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: RE: Customizing a piano
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 17:31:36 +0200


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 m e 
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 
To: Pianotech List 
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



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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