[pianotech] CA pinblock with tight bushings

Duaine Hechler dahechler at att.net
Tue Feb 15 07:32:02 MST 2011


On 02/15/2011 12:49 AM, Susan Kline wrote:
> On 2/14/2011 6:39 PM, Mike Spalding wrote:
>> Good grief!  I guess there's more of the back story that you need to
>> know here.  This is  a performance piano, it gets tuned frequently,
>> but not by me.  Their regular tuner is a skilled "full service"
>> technician who chooses not to get involved in CA juicing, and calls
>> me instead.  I don't have the luxury of knowing ahead of time which
>> pins are too loose, and which ones are acceptable.  So I do them
>> all.  My respirator prevents liver pickling.  I find that setting up,
>> and cleaning up afterward take about half the total time, so juicing
>> fewer pins wouldn't reduce my time very much.
>
> Ah. You're being contracted for the job by someone else, for a single
> service. Totally different situation, absolutely, than being able to
> work on a few notes during routine visits.
>
> Understood.
>
> Susan
>
>
Silly little question - why is the fonts in your emails bigger than
anybody elses ?

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