Major Surgery

[voce88 at aol.com]

Del,



As you know, the pinblock is not the only unusual part of a K&B restoration. 



What are you doing about the action? Are you rebuilding the original wippens or have you found someone who makes them? By the way, good luck in regulation! (Whew - been there, done that)



All the best,



Rich Galassini

Cunningham Piano Company

(215) 991-0834



It has long puzzled me why piano makers would go to such extremes when designing
and fitting pinblocks. Brinsmead is not alone in this. We're working on a
Kranich & Bach piano just now with another unnecessarily complex pinblock
design. This thing has four separate twisted and convoluted levels -- each of
which must be carefully fitted to a mating offset in the plate. These were not
particularly great or expensive pianos yet constructing and fitting this
pinblock clearly wasted considerable time and effort. 

Del
Delwin D Fandrich
Piano Design & Manufacturing Consultant
620 South Tower Avenue
Centralia, Washington 98531  USA
Phone  360.736-7563
<mailto:fandrich at pianobuilders.com> 






-----Original Message-----
From: Delwin D Fandrich <fandrich at pianobuilders.com>
To: 'Pianotech List' <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 2:59 pm
Subject: RE: Major Surgery



It has long puzzled me why piano makers would go to such extremes when designing
and fitting pinblocks. Brinsmead is not alone in this. We're working on a
Kranich & Bach piano just now with another unnecessarily complex pinblock
design. This thing has four separate twisted and convoluted levels -- each of
which must be carefully fitted to a mating offset in the plate. These were not
particularly great or expensive pianos yet constructing and fitting this
pinblock clearly wasted considerable time and effort. 

Del
Delwin D Fandrich
Piano Design & Manufacturing Consultant
620 South Tower Avenue
Centralia, Washington 98531  USA
Phone  360.736-7563
<mailto:fandrich at pianobuilders.com> 



| -----Original Message-----
| From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org 
| [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of John Delacour
| Sent: March 28, 2008 2:20 PM
| To: Pianotech List
| Subject: Major Surgery
| 
| 
| Gluttons for punishment might like to see how to prepare for 
| the re-stringing of an old grand piano:
| 
|   <http://pianomaker.co.uk/brinsmead_24130/>
| 
| JD
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