Mark, You must not live in the hills of Kentucky, (grin). I just fixed up an old Kimball studio for a client who told me a new piano was not an option. I had to replace punchings and level keys, correct keydip, try to seat chewed up dampers properly, shim up the balance rail, replace the missing bridle straps, adjust for lost motion, in addition to the cleaning, 60c pitch raise or more and the tuning. It took about 5 hours out of my Saturday, but my client was overjoyed to play her piano again. (Nevermind that it had been sitting in a basement for who knows how long neglected, but that's beside the point). :-) Mouse houses never a welcome treat, but it is possible to make the best of the bad situation. Welcome to the rat pack. Barbara Nobbe, RPT Pitch Perfect 859-489-4793 barbara at pitchperfectpianos.com -----Original Message----- From: Marc Mailhot <mailhot0405 at yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 11:43:59 To: <pianotech at ptg.org> Subject: [pianotech] Interesting Find Hi everyone. Just got back from a supposed 30 min piano evaluation that turned into a 2 hour service all. Seems a rodent got into her Wurlitzer Spinet...built a nice nest and helped himself to piles of dogfood...still on the action...IN the action...and on the bottom of the piano. Being a Spinet did not want to pull the acton and managed to get most of it out. Still more left which will require another service call and likely pulling all the keys out as I found little morsels of food underneath the 3 keys I pulled to get the food out.Tuning after the next service call. Pulled one original key screw out and found it was bent in the middle...installed that way at the Factory in 1963 per my dating of the SN. More quality workmanship from Wullitzer! My customer got her camera out and I took a good number of photos which she'll send me and then I'll share with all of you. I love this job and thought I'd share my morning with you all. Last known tuning was in June 1994. She lives in the country and I suspect this happens all the time...but my first encounter with rodents who like pianos! All for now. Regards as always. Marc P. Mailhot Marco Polo Music Westbrook, Maine USA The Love You Take is Equal to the Love You Make... The Beatles/Abbey Road (The End)...1969 --- On Thu, 2/4/10, pianotech-request at ptg.org <pianotech-request at ptg.org> wrote: From: pianotech-request at ptg.org <pianotech-request at ptg.org> Subject: pianotech Digest, Vol 16, Issue 46 To: pianotech at ptg.org Date: Thursday, February 4, 2010, 2:00 PM Send pianotech mailing list submissions to pianotech at ptg.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://ptg.org/mailman/listinfo/pianotech or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to pianotech-request at ptg.org You can reach the person managing the list at pianotech-owner at ptg.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of pianotech digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: pianotech Digest, Vol 16, Issue 44 (Anna-Luise Messerschmidt) 2. Re: Axis of evil sounds (was hardening hammers on a Chinese PSO) (Kerry) 3. Re: Pleyel Grand Regulation (David Ilvedson) 4. Pleyel Grand Regulation (CALANDE Luc) _______________________________________________ pianotech mailing list pianotech at ptg.org http://ptg.org/mailman/listinfo/pianotech -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100204/0970c2cc/attachment-0001.htm>
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