[CAUT] Repetition Alignment

[Wimblees at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/28/2006 10:08:12 AM Central Standard Time,  
piano57 at insightbb.com writes:

A little off the subject, but related--I was wondering about how much  
repetitions move or stay put.  The question came up for me because I did  a <huge> 
regulation job on an 9 year old Steinway B (obviously over-due)  and though the 
hammers were nice and neatly spaced to the hammer rest felts,  the 
repetitions were all over the place.  They were so bad, my thoughts  were that they had 
never been spaced and traveled correctly to begin  with.  When I spaced and 
traveled them, there wasn't much traveling paper  to be seen.  On the other 
hand, this was a university professor's home  piano and it was hard to imagine 
that the dealer delivered the piano in less  than pristine condition.
 
Comments?
 
Barbara Richmond, RPT
near Peoria, IL 



Barb
 
Unfortunately, I think the latter might very well be the case. Up until  
about 5 years ago, Steinway pianos were delivered to stores with the intention  
that the store would have a technician prep the piano before it was put on the  
floor. In many cases, the store just didn't do that, not because the owner  
didn't think it was necessary, (most probably didn't know the difference  
anyway), but because it was an expense they didn't want to pay.
 
Wim 
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