Major Surgery

[Dave Davis]

I will categorically confirm your curmudgeonliness.

anon

----- Original Message ----
From: Delwin D Fandrich fandrich at pianobuilders.com


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 
 
 


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> 






-----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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