[Files] Fw: 6 pictures for you

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Tom-

If the piano is stable, it would probably sound a lot better with a separate bass bridge, rescaled to an appropriate string length at the break.  I tuned a piano with a scale similar to this one a few weeks ago, and it was wretched.

Or perhaps it should go as is to a museum of oddities.

Ed Sutton

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>From: TOM DRISCOLL <tomtuner at verizon.net>
>Sent: May 11, 2006 5:45 PM
>To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
>Subject: Re: [Files] Fw: 6 pictures for you
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>>> List,
>>>     Wing and son upright piano from around 1930 as best as I can tell.
>>> Flat strung with this unusual strut behind the soundboard.
>>> This piano is 200 cents flat and I don't know what to do !
>>> I'm a pull it up to pitch guy,but this one makes me nervous.Thoughts?
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>> Only that if you don't like it, don't do it. Having a customer's approval 
>> to do something you're not comfortable with still leaves YOU standing in 
>> front of the thing stacking on tension.
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>> How did this come to be in the shop when these decisions are being made?
>> Ron N
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>    Ron,
>    My piano mover had the piano in storage as it was transitioning to the 
>next generation.
>    I was asked to evaluate and suggest repair(if possible).
>    I will be meeting with the lucky new owner next week.
>    Tom D.
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>It looks like the wood post next to the bel canto bar is delaminating, and 
>the bass corner joint might be coming open.
>You might consider drilling into the joints, injecting glue and driving home 
>a dowel to send the glue into the joints, and let dry before pulling to 
>pitch.
>Ed Sutton
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>Ed, Correct--Very observant . That will be step one if I plunge ahead on 
>this gem.My main concerns are what happens after that!
>    Tom D.
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