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

Barrie

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

Barrie

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

Barrie

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

Barrie

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

Barrie

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

I have passed on your contact details, someone should be in touch soon

Thanks

Barrie

I will re post this on the Blind piano tuners list can you PM your contact details

Barrie

When I started at 21, my projected retirement age was 60. Then it moved to 65. Now I'm 57, retirement is supposed to be 67. By the time I'm 67 it'll be 97... :roll: I'll retire when either my ears or my thumbs give out. Your still a spring chicken then One of the guys who instructed me is still tun...

it's not just tuners musical interment repairs across the spectrum is in decline. Young ones do not want to train. The ones that are in training tend to be older students, there is one in her 50s but she is keen and is coming to our regulating classes in June. There are two places in the UK that do ...

Sadly that's a good retail gone... they are getting thin on ground

Barrie

1740000 = c1973

E is Europe "N" prefix Kemble’s
C is Chinese
J is Indonesia
H Japanese H. X. D. Are a model prefix
"T", the piano was manufactured in Thomaston, Georgia
"U", the piano was manufactured in South Haven, Michigan.

Barrie

A few months ago on another forum a person doing some sort of music course asked for information to complete an assignment and was given lots of suggestions. There was no indiction that the original poster had even read the replies. I ended up deleting my contribution. you also could look at it If ...

its the young ones, quite often they post to other media if they don't get a response instantly like on Facebook then they ignore it as it has been answered somewhere else.... They are just Rude in my mind, but in there world its the norm as they are not used to face to face world so they real world...

Both the A and the O are going to be loud in a townhouse. The Model A is much louder but has a far richer sound as you are in the concert range than the O if you have the room and the cash get the A Both pianos can be voiced down to Bluthner levels yet: it will still carry in a townhouse. However, t...

You need to give more info to why its a scam

Barrie

As it says at the top of the site we can not put a value on a piano whiteout seeing it However, a piano of that age tends not to fetch much money. The trade would ask you for money to take it away. They sell on on eBay from £0 to ... whatever you can get for them. If it is on concert pitch and plays...

Hello! My name is Simon, a piano teacher based over in Belfast, Northern Ireland. I run Piano Lessons Belfast - http://www.pianolessonsbelfast.com - having moved over to Belfast from York, where I studied music and worked as a musician and musical director. I thought I would join the forum to help ...

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/most of Daren is gridlock had to cancel 2 tuning hoping to get out after 12 noon

are you stuck on the 65

if you double click on the image it will enlarge, then if you click on it again it will zoom in

you will see normal pins but the string goes over the edge like a waterfall

I bet it is great fun to tune

Barrie

Not pins under the keyboard look the pins they are like grand pointing up in the air zoom in on the photo

Changing the plank on this piano will very complex as it looks like it forms part of the bridge system. Also, looking at the tuning pins they look like they are pulling forward, could be the angel of the photo but there should be a 7 degree tilt away from the speaking length.

Barrie

Kemble (not Kimball - they're american) Minx are normally fairly well made and as long as it's been well looked after and not overheated there's no reason it should have the problems that you mention. Why not get it looked at first before you start to panic? Look at the piano its a top tuner Kemble...

West cost of Lancs never get much most of the jobs I had to cancel on Thursday was in Blackpool they had none but it was gridlocked here and where my driver lives on the other side of Grain road it was closed it's always one of the first because of drifting All this very dry weather is killing a lot...

Had to cancel all my tuning for last Thursday, Go out to 3 yearday its mucked up my diary.

one of the tuners in down south has not been out for 3 days

have you been stuck
Barrie

you have 3 options

1. you can change the pin block
2. you can change the tuning pins come up 2 sizes in tuning pin
3. chemical option, the cheapest option would be to pin-tite it or super glue it

All depends on your tuners skill set

Barrie

The hammers need reshaping ( that is called Voicing ) then they will need toning, that is making the sound of the piano suite your ears and the room. As to the double striking that is regulating problem, looks like the piano need a good service about 4 to 6 hours provided there are no other issues w...

Most UK pianos that were made pre 1960 upright used 0-0 x pins if the piano has to be restrung it can anything up to 7-0 x Today most tend to use 2-0 x this is to make the pin titer because of the greater surface area, as they user nickel plated pins which are more slippery than just mild steel ones...

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