Hi List - For those of you who haven't had a chance to visit the new Schaff website, I would like to invite you to explore the site, and to take a look at a series of articles that I'm doing for them. To get there type in schaffpiano, do a web search, and hit Schaff Piano Supply - Products that will come up. Once on there, go to webstore on the menu bar (you'll need a Login ID and Password, which you can e-mail them for [if you have an account], if you don't have one). Once you get to the webstore landing page, simply click on the picture under the caption "Technical Articles" and a list of the available articles will come up. These are written primarily for someone starting out in the business, but it's possible even those of you who have been at it for a while might find something of interest. The articles available at this point are: Installing Music Desk Hinges Lacquer Stick Work Repinning an Upright Removing Bass Strings for Duplication Removing and Miking Treble Strings Finishing the Cast Iron Plate Removing Keys and Keyframe Refelting the Keybed Rebushing Keys Filing Hammers Installing Cork Bridle Straps Hammer Butt Restoration Regluing Loose Jack Flanges Replacing Hammer Butt Springs Using the Tuning Pin Crank Using the Action Cradle The Piano Parts Trolley Collapsible Bench Plans - Sample Pages Plus, a 3 part series on repinning and restringing an upright is done, and has been turned in for editing, and will be hopefully on the site soon. As I often stress in these articles, my methods are only presented as a starting point for consideration. For practically any procedure, opinions vary (anyone who has been observing the discourse on this site can absolutely testify to that) and one should always survey various approaches before deciding on a course of action. I just describe how I do a procedure, what works for me, which is really all that any of us can do. Others will do things differently. Anyway, hopefully the list of articles will grow. I've got photo files for another 65 write-ups, and ideas for a number more that I don't happen to have the photos for. It's just a matter of finding the time to sit down, and try to put some ideas together. To those of you with far more experience than myself (and there are quite a number of you that I would put in that category), I just ask that you go easy on me here. I'm just trying to contribute what I can for the good of the cause. I respect the fact that a lot of are more knowledgeable than myself. However, all I can do is write about what I know personally. If only those who "knew it all" were to contribute to the body of literature available, we would be very limited indeed. OT, wasn't that some NCAA game last night? Holy cow, what a nail-biter. When that last shot went up, I bet there were 70,000 people holding their breath. What a finish! Have a great day, everyone. Chuck -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100406/68263afd/attachment.htm>
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