OK, As I already said, Al, I can't argue with your experience as it is far more extensive than mine. I didn't find them to work well for me, that's all. It was based on work that I did while at the factory, not their own people. I don't know what else to say. It must be my bedding technique. I can't suggest any alternatives that agree with your experience. I'll go back to my hole now..........[?] William R. Monroe On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Al Guecia/AlliedPianoCraft < AlliedPianoCraft at hotmail.com> wrote: > > > *From:* William Monroe <bill at a440piano.net> > *Sent:* Friday, August 14, 2009 9:09 AM > *To:* pianotech at ptg.org > *Subject:* Re: [pianotech] Key frame hold downs > > Al, you wrote: > "2. I do not disagree with you in that it may not be a reliable method with > today's key bedding" > > *What I meant to say is that It may not be a reliable method in the way > they bed the key frames today. Not that it was properly bedded, on the > contrary. Once properly bedded as I said previously, I find them to be very > reliable. I guess it all boils down to what you consider to be proper key > bedding.* > > Then You wrote: > "One last point. If the spring clamps are not working reliably, that is > proof positive that the key frame hasn't been bed properly." > > Yes. > > > > So, which is it? I'm not trying to be argumentative here. My ONLY real > point is that the spring clamps don't seem to be repeatable or reliable on > every piano, and your two statements quoted above seem to support that. I > certainly cannot argue with your experience, it is far more than mine, and > no doubt gives you an insight that I don't have. I'll have to defer to you > there. But I do contend that with the work I did, poor bedding was not the > cause for inexact, unrepeatable regulation when using the spring clamps. > > William R. Monroe > > -- William R. Monroe, RPT A440-William R. Monroe Piano Services, Inc. 314 E. Church St. Belleville, WI 53508 608-215-3250 www.a440piano.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090815/155d19f5/attachment.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 96 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090815/155d19f5/attachment.gif>
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