Major Surgery

[Delwin D Fandrich]

What? You think I'm nuts? I'm just doing the block, board and bridges. That's
enough weirdness for me. 
 
Perhaps I'm just getting curmudgeonly in my advancing year but I no longer do
stuff like that. The technician who sent me the job is doing all of the action
and damper work. And he's welcome to it.
 
ddf 
 
 

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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
voce88 at aol.com
Sent: March 29, 2008 12:38 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: Major Surgery


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 <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 <mailto:fandrich at pianobuilders.com?> > 







| -----Original Message-----

| From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org 

| [mailto: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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