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i'M SURE bILL kIBBY IS RIGHT- LOOKS VERY N.AMERICAN TO ME. tHE WOOD LOOKS SO.
wHAT DO THE THE 3 PEDALS ACTUALLY DO? (oops!)
If the extra pedal lifts only the bass section of dampers you can bet it is as Bill says.
The columns look like 1950s "modernisation" substitutions

Brian I hate to say this, but if Inverness is too far away from this mysterious "Granite City"of yours for you to try our display of pianos in Inverness, then I suggest you try our good friend Gordon Bell Pianos who inhabits a Granite City with an array of Kembles, Kawais etc.(tel 01224 65...

As you are in NE Scotland you must be near us in Inverness so give us a ring and you won't be left to the vagaries of internet buying but can see the real thing, get proper preparation and technical service.

can't see a pm anywhere

Bill
Give me an address.
I would like the originals returned after copying if that is ok.
Vernon

I did think this was your pet albeit for older pianos.
As you are a repository of knowledge I wondered if this stuff is of interest to the archives.

Bill
I've found some original brochures of above if they are of any interest
vernon

a modern acoustic piano will give you no problems whatsoever in these areas. Go for it.

buzzes I have known. Barrie's suggestion sounds good-- quite recently we had a Schimmel with an elusive buzz which finally turned out to be a drumstick under the frame, just sticking but also moving around occasionally when the weather was right. Also had a broken bridge pin which proved to be the b...

Can't you hire a charabanc and at least half a dozen of us forum experts could descend on you?
Think of the piano crap that would be spoken then.

See previous postings ie I hope the sap has not drained from your wrest plank or the hammers are not playing the next note ,let alone the moths and rodents making free with your succulent felts, etc. It is to be hoped the storeman has not been transfixed by hurtling wrestpins. I would love to pop do...

Thank goodness for that. I thought my wrest plank had exploded

Jolly good.
Lionel who was our Head Technician always used them at Steinways before he went up market and came to us!!!

we use what used to be called an "ink rubber" available at all office supplies a few years back. It's like a pencil rubber but coarser. Don't know if you can still get them now. Few people use fountain pens now.

That is very sad news

If you're coming to the UK in Feb, make a list of the bits you need and this forum will point you towards a suitable supplier who will send them on to you.
While you've not tuners and yellow Pages in Libya I bet they have postmen

tempogen
We've got a K in stock if you need any tips. I'm not familiar with the entrails of the Z tho'

Barratt and Robinson manufactured the Kastner-Wehlau action.
I remember visiting their factory in The Grove,Crouch End N London in the 1970's and I am sure I was introduced to Mr Wehlau who was the engineer there, and I feel the actions were also made on site.

What are the physics of termination points in the piano? Logic suggests that they should be knife sharp not of a rounded section which must give an infinite number of termination points as the string moves with vibration. Obviously this doesn't seem to provide a problem and a knife edge would effici...

As Tuna says, 0000 wire wool but I would also add WD40 sparingly to the wire wool and wipe off any surplus. Obviously don't spray it onto the strings,rather the wire wool.Also make sure none reaches the wrest pins.

no key tops but I've many locks. let me see what you are after

Bill There is a correspondent from NZ in the local Aberdeen paper writing a book about the above pianos. Apparently he was a "piano maker and tuner in Aberdeen" till he went to NZ in 1861 and the firm continued till 1970. She is his g-g-granddaughter Nobody's heard of him up here in the Ab...

Looks like 1970- agood year for Knights

I feel most of these posts are from the Home Counties. There are still many of us out here in the sticks who offer a proper preparation and back up as a matter of course. I am sure the coming months will hopefully weed out many of the cowboys. I am sure I speak for many established dealers who, whil...

Crikey! Has Humph made it up there already?

I reckon St Jude may pull it off for you, so to speak

not in the piano trade I fear

Succintly put

We sent a piano to storage in Nigeria and shortly the termites left only the frame and strings along with an assortment of ironmogery. Make sure you are not in termite country. You are bound to be in mice country and you would be advised to regularly strum a few fff chords, composed mainly of 2nds a...

That is an excellent price providing the supplier includes delivery, stool and pre-delivery preparation and full after -sales service.
Also, an assurance he will still be in business in 6 month's time to fulfill his guarantee.

Otherwise, give me a bell

Why not get a 1920's Bechstein signed by Adolf Hitler and his bankroller, Frau Bechstein?
The Nazi connection never seems to get mentioned on the Bechstein website

Samantha Direct your enquiries towards a competent technician and you may find your piano is both playable and tuneable, albeit not to the highest standards. Some tuners are a bit sniffy about them and refuse to touch them altho' thev've not seen them. Yesterday I tuned a 1930's straight strung Kemm...

What about a nicely prepared Pearl River 125 or Kawai K3- you'll get either under 4kl
Nicht ein Yamahfan

we offer a fine B&B in Scotland=free tuning and reg.
Boat rides, Nessie viewing,haggis and neeps- the whole business
Turn up for a tuning with the old ladies and you're made

HAVE AT LOOK AT THE fORUM " pIANOS ON THE iNTERNET" TODAY AND YOU WILL SEE SOME OF THE PITFALLS. EG A JUDGE RULED AGAINST A COMPLAINANT BECAUSE THERE IS NO MEASURE OF HOW LONG A PIANO SHOUILD STAY IN TUNE OR( sorry!) if it should be at " concert" pitch. Hence, a tech is very ill ...

I have a customer with a 1909 Bluthner grand supplied by a shop in Glasgow (!), half the dust has blown out of it,( still plenty of hairpins and tinsel in it) case sprayed. . £12000. Bought by a young piano teacher on hp. It's her pride and joy. When asked my opinion, what do I say? "...

When is someone going to invent a "soft" peadl that works?

If the story you report is complete, I should let the customer vent his ire on him, take him to the Small Claims Court, backed by a competent Tech who will play ball and make sure the press is there, by phoning them first.
The customer's job, not yours.

CHARLIE KUNZ used to give me a FIVER when I tuned his jo for a concert! Moisewitz told me " Przyz Nova blytxz" ( no fiver tho') The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Coggan, when I turned up at the palace to replace a leg on his Bechstein which was propped up on bibles, said; "God help us....

As David B says, get some old ivory tops . They will be bigger than yr old Broadwood keys. Just make them fit

As a long established dealer I am appalled at some of the stories we hear on this forum. Before any piano is dispatched from our place, I personally tune it and check everything so it is 100%. Very occasionally, mainly due to difference in environment, a customer will report a noise or a click or a ...

why won't he dealer let a tech inspect it?
Jolly fishy to me.

that's not the serial no. Look for something nearer 50000-70000
If you've got a pic I'll tell you the model

I include french polishing in my skills tho' I'm not as good or as fast as my Dad was.( try doing a grand top sometime-in black) As it's your first piano, and I apologise if this is obvious, you must dismantle the case-work completely, removing all the panels,removal able, mouldings,brasswork,pedals...

Using black polish( shellac) you can actually " paint in" a new whorl to existing features over a repair, using the finest brush. Be bold! You now become an artist rather than a technician. Take off all the brass and polish it. It will set off the finished job. Your approach to re-glueing ...

Apart from black, burr walnut is the easiest to hide due to the bold grain and blemishes which you can carefully copy. Have a look at the rest of the case and I bet you will find several examples of bits being coloured in as well as the new knots that have been inlaid where the originals have fallen...

When we were kids, we got old celluloid key tops from dad, wrapped them in newspaper and lit them. The trick is not to let them burn but to blow out the flame so it just fumes. They make excellent smoke screens.

I thought I would share that bit of folk lore.

you can't polish the name without stripping the inside of the fall. Prepare the wood and polish immediately with pale polish which will stabilise the polished letters. Subsequent pfads will be so thin as not to darken the letters. The proper repair of corners is to cut them back and inlay a suitable...

there doesn't seem too much info in your posting either!

if you've isolated the noise to the soft fall mechanism then you are both lucky and laughing. It should require only a small fiddling to cure.
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