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Forums, on the whole, are in decline some are doing better than others. It uses to be newsgroups rec.music.makers.piano was a good one in the 90s who use them now! then in the 00's it was Forums now its Facebook and next... ! This site took a big hit in 2016 when we had a major hack and Google dropp...

Hi Tim No, you have done nothing wrong it was me. I was making some updates and annual clean up of the site. Also, I changed spam questions part of this is deleting inactive users but I set the date and number of posts wrong so users from Jan this year were removed but the post will have stayed Good...

You do run the risk of braking shanks or blocking the note if the key dip is not solid. Also, if too solid makes the pianist's wrist sore. Better to alterer the rake ( that is the angel of the hammer Butt notch) Steingraeber pianos run into this problem when they made the touch too solid they used t...

That was one of the films we had to watch when training. Nice to see it again, thanks

Have a good one

and all the best for the new year

Barrie

the short answer is No

The only one that is effective in Humidity swings is the carbon fiber one But..... £££££

or have a lifesaver fitted it's cheaper and they do work well

Barrie

this year's ups and downs of humanity as made a lot of pianos move in and out of tune.

Barrie

OK the simplest way for you is go to a chemist and get some 3% hydrogen peroxide. with rubber gloves on using a clean cloth apply a little of the hydrogen peroxide and rub The trick is little and often Don't over soak the cloth Ivory is porous so not too much each time. if posable put the key in Sun...

Are you sure they are ivory first as Ivory is different from cleaning cellulose keys.

Barrie

Having 3 bods to move is a good idea, if the piano is moving more than a 3 meters as it will put a strain on the legs. If the piano is in a public building it should have an Aframe if it has an Aframe then not a problem with one bod moving it so long as they can control it

Barrie

the frame bracing is not a problem it has been done before with Broadwoods

My concern would be the capo bar running to a full length of the piano's treble. capo bar does make the string go false over time more than agraps

Barrie

This will be an interesting piano to tune
https://www.stuartandsons.com/108keys.html

A vid of it
https://www.facebook.com/breakfastnews/ ... 484673882/

Barrie

When the person you have sent them to logs in

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Trade will ask you for money to take it away

Get a tuner in to see if the piano is OK or find out from the seller who tuned it last and when it was tuned

if they know the tuners name give them a ring and ask the tuner what is the condition of the piano like

Barrie

Find out who use to tune the piano and ask them the condition, when was the last tuned and was it on a pitch. You may have to pay for a pitch move one you get it home. I have 10 years old + Yamahas on my round that only get tuned every 18 months as they are in a very good environment, the pitch is b...

Yes they are happy to have the work done, just finding time to slot it in As to the upgrade you go to It app store and it should be there on the front page, it a free upgrade. if you want to do a clean install that is a tad more complex read https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/clean-install-macos-10-14...

Sandra has been user her MacBook pro with Mojave for a few days now, she says its much better than High Sierra she got her 3 email accounts back off icloud with no hassle.

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We are looking to change Magpie RSS as it falls over more than it works but it is a free Rss feeder... !

The Safari and crome thing maybe some of the JAVA scrips what version of Chrome do you have mine is
Version 69.0.3497.100 (Official Build) (64-bit)

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Just took the wife's Mac book pro 2013 (Mavericks) into Weston computers in Preston today. To have it wiped cleaned and the new OS put on she is happy to pay the £69.00 saves me a job. She updates as soon as a new version is out, but she was complaining about the last big update "High Sierra&qu...

what v of Safari. are you running, mine is Version 12.0 (14606.1.36.1.9) and it works ok do you have a Mac what O/S are you running.

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Need a new set of Bass strings but I don't think they can afford it at present

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I am tuning the piano this Thursday if its the one at the S Army

The bots are a pain as they eat up bandwidth Some we need like Google bots but the rest are just trying to add spam or collect data to send users to spam if they get your email

Enjoy the piano

Barrie

Some interesting fact in September so far we have had 1,096,678 visitors to the site who we let in and 63,620 who we blocked of the ones we let in 25% were real visitors Desktop 17.4% Total: 239,134 Mobile 7.4% Total: 101,316 and the rest was a pain in the :oops: robots Bots 75.3% Total: 1,035,148 t...

I would get a tuner in to see if it will tune first. He/she will sort out the sticking notes and tell you if it worth spending money on

Barrie

I tend to use that site lot especially the sales history is very useful

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A full list is on the UK piano page
https://www.piano-tuners.org/category/p ... nd/london/

Yes, it was made by Pearl River in China. They are no longer made for outside China. The B1 replaced it which is made in Indonesia This was the production Serial Number arriving in the UK. at the End of 2004 UK V114N = E315794 P121N = E312428 P116 = E319356 Pearl River C110A = C70782 Japan Su118C = ...

There is a link in the main menu to the left, to the main site admin

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Yes fount is bigger I am looking at that there is a conflict with the 5 css The image at the top should get smaller

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We have made some changes to the site over the last 12 months Some you can see others you cannot. We now have 2 firewalls we also force you to use https. We now have balanced servers which will speed up the site. Also, a robot trolling the site looking for bad files and hopefully blocking those who ...

Woodchester pianos in Stroud never asked me to add a grand to their website and I can't see an older version of the company is it an old piano or a newish one

Barrie

DNA test will give you the origins Indian or African

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You have to prove the ivory is before 1936 if after you have to prove its origins a DNA test is the best way.
However, if the ivory is coming off in the US I would remove before shipping to save you the aggravation.

I would give the US embassy a call first as the rules are changing

Barrie

is it across the whole range of dampers or just one area
Quite often on older dampers, the split wedges are disturbed. sometimes the only way to get them back is to take off the heads and reglue

Barrie

photo is useful

The posts are called bracings and many makers did not put them on in the 60 - 80s to save money and space. They do make the tuning more stable in a changing environment and if you move the pian across a room. The diagonal strips are called Ribs they transmit sound across the grain on the soundboard ...

As I understand it the EEC directive as it stands you have to prove the ivory is older than 1930 if after 1930 and pre 1970 you then have to prove origins. Also as tuners, we can fix damaged ivory and charge for the repair. However, we can not charge you for any replacement ivory What we are hoping ...

Have your say on the Ivory Bill - News from Parliament The Committee is expected to meet for the first time on Tuesday 12 June 2018; it will stop receiving written evidence at the end of the Committee stage, which is expected to be not later than 5.00pm on Thursday 21 June 2018. However, please note...

Have you looked at the list of Accompanists

Could be the U spring coming away from the bottom board

Barrie

Ok your tuner may or may not know this but there is a chemical tuning pin restore. Two methods, one uses
pin tie and the other using CA glue

The piano needs to be put on its back for best results I tend to use pin tite first as the CA fumes are a killer

Barrie

There are 2 types used in polishing, the second photo is very aggressive and is used on new polish. The first is used in a drill or angel grinder

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More to the point why should such a young piano (Petrof?) have loose tuning pins? The old Petrofs of the 80 wer not that good not as bad as the Belarus pianos we use to import them in the 80s seemed like they had oval tuning pins when you tried to tune them a nightmare Bass string overlapped the ne...

All depends on how deep your pockets are. The cost of the repair will be more than the piano's worth. To change the tuning pins you are going to need to change the string ideally, you can just repin but it depends on the quality of the strings. The action looks very tired and needs of a full recondi...

Why not hammer the pin in. instead of turning the pin in a hard way.

It's nothing new just a different material I use veneer

Barrie

Have you tried buffing out the left over residue with a clean buffing mop you have to be quite vigorous

BArrie

thanks for the info. it mentions is a show glaze for light coloured vehicles. My piano is black. are you also using it on black pianos? Yes we use it on Black ones do a test area first I have one last question - regarding my issue of the polish on my piano seeming to reappear after a few days (like...

I have edited my post to poor boys white diamond it has Aluminium in it

the cory will work but it takes a lot of rubbing and it will make it dull to start but then you need to buff out the polish same goes for the white diamond we use it for grand lids bring it up to a showroom finish

Barrie

You need poor boys white diamond buffing compound and a heavy duty buffer like the Draper Car Valeting Polisher and time then a good quality buffing polish If they are deep scratches then you will need Konig Polishing Paste and Traz pads Be careful at the edges as you may take off all the polish Sto...

Don't forget followed by the sigh of despair as its a drop action

We are running a class next month on the joys of working on small pianos

http://www.piano-tuners.org/AGM/2018/index.html

Barrie

A sound file of the click can tell us a lot

Barrie

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