[pianotech] pianotech Digest, Vol 12, Issue 73

[Paul T Williams]

Now if Monk was a rebuilder.....it would take 1,000,000 years to 
completely finish...and then...it wouldn't be quite right!  I love Monk! 
(BTW..I'm fine with beckets anywhere from 1-3:17pm or so...) ;>)

Paul




From:
Israel Stein <custos3 at comcast.net>
To:
pianotech at ptg.org
Date:
10/06/2009 12:41 PM
Subject:
Re: [pianotech] pianotech Digest, Vol 12, Issue 73




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>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 


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