[pianotech] pianotech Digest, Vol 12, Issue 73

[David Ilvedson]

What is fairly random?   I still waiting the the PTG test criteria for the stringing part..?

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Israel Stein" <custos3 at comcast.net>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 10/6/2009 10:41:38 AM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] pianotech Digest, Vol 12, Issue 73



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>Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 9:21:47 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 

>>Paul Dempsey wrote: 

>>Precision placement of the beckets is nice if you can get it. If you're compelled for 
>it, 
>> go for it. I don't think it means squat. 

>>I just replaced a set of bass strings on a Yamaha grand that the owner had killed 
>with 
>>Pledge or something. I looked at every becket on the factory stringing and they all 
>were in the >1:00 to 4:00 position. 

>>My new Bass strings were all in the 1:00 to 3:00 spot. 

>Funny, Paul, I was just thinking of what the stringing on our Hamburg Steinway D 
>here at SFSU looked like before I restrung it a few years ago (I was having the same 
>discussion with someone locally back then). It was the original factory stringing. 

>Tuning pins perfectly level. Very nice, tight, level coils, correct number of turns, 
>bends perfectly shaped (nobody has mentioned that yet - now that's really 
>important...). Beckets alignment - fairly random. Shame on all those sloppy, 
>unprofessional German Steinway stringers. 

>>I doubt that the customer will notice. I don't remember ever having a client even 
>say the word >becket. 

>Have you considered what it would take for the layman to even notice the becket 
>alignment? 

>1. Remove the music desk 
>2. Assume position quite familiar to men of a certain age from their annual prostate 
>exam 
>3. Squint. 
>4. Clean glasses (if applicable) 
>5. Squint again 
>6. Have piano technician (or salesman) show them where to look for "beckets" 
>and/or explain what they look like. . 
>7. Have piano technician (or salesman) draw their attention to the fact that said 
>"beckets" are not aligned. Unless their name is Adrian Monk - in which case they may 
>notice all by themselves. Maybe... 

>Israel Stein