[pianotech] Ahlstrom --- Piano

[petercstevenson at telus.net]

Can you explain what exactly the "Piano Registry" is? I've looked at the
web site and the list archives and I haven't found out much of anything.
What kinds of things are you looking for?
 Peter Stevenson

On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 11:25 -0500, JWyatt1492 at aol.com wrote:
>  
>   Hello Pat,
> 
>      Thank you for your reply.  This information will go into the
> PTGF.  " Piano  Registry."  Your name will be registered also.
>  
>    Present and future  Technicians 20, 50, 100 years from now 
> can have access to this knowledge.
>      
>   If someone does not preserve this information then it will be
> gone forever. This would be a shameful loss.
> 
>    The  P.T.G. Foundation has now began this effort.
>  
> We need help,    Thank you for yours,
>  
> Jack Wyatt
> Dallas,
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
> In a message dated 1/31/2009 1:35:24 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> jpdraine at gmail.com writes:
>         Hi Jack, 
>         You've jarred some long sleeping memory cells! Way back when I
>         was "thinking about" a career in piano technology(1974-75?),
>         my next door neighbors left their Ahlstrom upright piano in
>         front of their apartment building (sans top front panel).
>         After confirming it was "free for the taking", I gathered a
>         few friends to haul it up several steps into my apartment. I
>         had it for about 5 years, and moved it several times as I
>         moved around University Circle (Cleveland).
>         When I "got serious", and attended Robert Perkins' piano
>         technology school on the west side of Cleveland, I spent many
>         hours at it, toiling away at the basics.
>         Philistine that I was at the time, my frustration with
>         "interference" from the auxiliary strings singing away in the
>         high treble, led me to remove those strings. I passed it on to
>         some friends when I moved back East (1979).
>         Patrick Draine
>         
>         On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 1:23 PM, <JWyatt1492 at aol.com> wrote:
>                   Hello to all,
>                  
>                       C. A. Ahlstron and his Brothers did indeed make
>                 high 
>                 quality Pianos.
>                       
>                    In addition to their non-blockable action they
>                 employed
>                 a self  regulating device in the action to insure that
>                 there
>                 would be no blocking.
>                  
>                    A special feature of their later pianos is the
>                 incorporation 
>                 of a system of auxiliary or sympathetic strings in the
>                 upper
>                 register. Experience and logic would lead us to
>                 believe it 
>                 was  similar  to the  German " Bluthner " Aliquot
>                 feature.   
>                  
>                   I would appreciate any and all factual information
>                 on this 
>                  "Ahlstom"  feature.  I need this info. for the PTG.
>                 Museum.
>                  
>                 Regards and 
>                 Thanks
>                 Jack Wyatt
>                 Dallas  
>                 
>                 
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