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I think Barrie must have a half-blow in mind

what's a "kawai action bar?"

sussex I'm v worried about the dealer/technician. Is he going to start turning things and adjusting some of those little nobby bits. It could be that DMathew has a very light touch in which case the adjustment will be minimal and not require disembowelling the whole machine and removing it to some t...

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he's probably taking the action away to " tighten the springs and move the board back!" ( see original enquiry)
I wouldn't let him near it and certainly not let him take anything away.
It sounds as tho' something is very wrong.
Kawais come in with excellent regulation.

Like Sussex Pianos I've no clue as to what your "tech" is on about. On a piano,blubbering is likely to be caused either by the touch being wrong(too shallow), the set off too late, the checks wrong,or the slap rail set too far in so the jacks can't escape properly. Bear in mind the latter ...

It was not my intention to be negative.
I just wonder what you get extra from a Steinway tuner that you don't get from a competent trained experienced tuner? Apart from a higher charge.

that does not seem to be the serial number, rather a part number or similar
Look for something around 70000

Rhinos don't have ivory; Their "horn"is made of hair..
Don't sniff it as it will make you go mad with lust.

John There are far more technical people on this forum than I, but here's a bit of general stuff. All pianos, as far as I am aware, are strung nowadays with plain carbon steel wire. The gauge of the wire increases from about 13 mwg to about 21 mwg as you head towards the bass.Then, to increase the m...

rsfk implies that Steinways only charge a few bob more than " ordinary tuners." I am sure that Gill the Piano et al equal any Steinway tuner so I hope she charges the same. They have no magic ingredient except the Name. I had an old lady who always gave me an extra fiver as I was " Be...

A professional person will tell you in 2 minutes wheteher it will go in or not.
In 50 years we have never not got a piano in!

Mdv I hope you realise these are all very subjective opinions. In the end , the decision will be yours. There is no place for regrets afterwards. it is pointless lauding the qualities of one piano against another as they are based on personal perceptions.Beauty is in the earhole of the listener. Som...

do a Hire-or-Buy arrangement with any good piano dealer.It will cost about £300 and if you don't like it they'll take it back after 6 months if you don't want to buty it. Your experiment will cost £300 but at least you'll have a good( probably new) instrument so to start on to se...

Spencers used to come with special Spencer key with a round head with"Spencer" filigreed into it. Somebody may have one

Hmmm. old piano.
Brumtuner's advice is probably righter than mine.

have a look underneath and you will find the pedal rod is jammed. Free it and everything will probably be tickety-boo.

level the keys before you fit any front baize washers

i can't remeber. If they have then to touch the backtouch packing is instant death. My best advice is to leave the back well alone, replace the backtouch with EXACTLY the same gauge felt( if it's not all in the bin or sustains some sort of life ,short of moths and meece) and work forward-centre firs...

don't remove the backtouch unless completely eaten.
Urgently fina half decent balance washer and front baize as a pattern of the gauge as you won't know the proceedure from scratch.

I fear we are leading this chap into deep water wherein he may drown. We all know the above but- O Enquirer! Advising a beginner, I wouldn't touch the packing, rather get as near as you can with the original. However, if you decide to pack ( or unpack the back rail) make sure you don't push out any ...

Any chance of finding a bit of the original backtouch, a centre washer and a front baize. ? If you can find sound bits it will save you a lot of heartache as you can fit new ones the same gauge saving pages of directions on this forum for subsequently setting the touch depth and key levelling Make s...

The possible causes are too numerous to list.
If you want to have a go, take a close look to see if it is a)the hammer sticking, b) the bits between the hammer and the key sticking or c) the keys sticking.
It's likely to be all three.
The answer is to pay a tech who will tell you instantly

A440 speaks with the wisdom of the ages.
November the 5th is the answer. No contest, as my younger siblings would say.

He'll fix it in minutes

Hope he checked to see if the gauges are marked on the wrestplank or frame.

Unless he proposes ro put the old strings back !!

Assuming you neither live up a mountain nor several flights of stairs, had you consulted a competent piano removal firm, they would have done the job with two men for far less than the monkey you were quoted. In addition you wouldn't have been left with a jeriatic joanna in need of a total rebuild. ...

My great grand dad Isaac deBock Kennard, a tuner,went from Margate Kent to Ballarat Australia in the 1860s.Family tales have it that he played on the emigrant ship going over and after that in the bars in Ballarat during the gold rush. Odd be cause they were a very religious family. He returned to M...

you won't reach breaking point

look it up before the Concert!

You won't get a player piano till the 20th century. Try and find a number

It will do the keys a world of good-- make them all shiny and clean and swell all the bushings so none of the keys work
It won't affect all the hairgrips, half -ps and christmas decorations and fluff lurking underneath tho'

We aught to start a whole new topic for us tuner/techs to give the outrageous, funny, sad, daily dealings with posh pianists, wonky ones, know alls and just plain ignorants. Grandad said " tune the customer, not the piano." Sin e cearst.( Gaelic) My experience is that the more eminent the ...

there must be one ofseveral reasons for double-blow and any experienced tech would sort it. He can't go away and say "I don't know what it is." An airline pilot lands and reports that his radar doesn't work. What would happen if the radar tech reports he has no idea what the fault is! All ...

perhaps an Easyjet ticket to and from Inverness may sort it.

Double-blow is usually a simply cured regulation problem.
Depth of touch needs to be put right.( ie too shallow)

If you can give me an idea of which springs are deficient with a sample, I am sure I can make you a set to suit.

we have had recently deprecatory remarks about a Company in Perth and one in Edinburgh. We must be careful as I am sure there are competent piano dealers in both places but we have all have seen disgraceful work from both those places up here in Scotland,so we must not tar all with the same black br...

we have had recently deprecatory remarks about a Company in Perth and one in Edinburgh. We must be careful as I am sure there are competent piano dealers in both places but we have all have seen disgraceful work from both those places up here in Scotland,so we must not tar all with the same black br...

any competent tuner/tech will be able to make a set of springs of any gauge, providing they are not of some exotic configuration

first find a tuner who is unwise enough to take one on. The wrest pins that protrude both sides of the wrest plank are generally loose and, of course, cannot be knocked in- otherwise they fall out! I've got a genuine eavestaffe minipiano stool if you want one, tho' it's walnut, not the mahogany illu...

what's the van Gruisen mean? Never heard that one.
How is it you have so much arcane knowledge?
I've been immersed in pianos all my life yet I learn something new on this forum everyday.
There are people extolling the virtues of modern pianos that I have never heard of.

me too. I sold a piano (20 years ago) and after a week the customer complained about bad repetition, and , indeed, the little rascals had removed all the tapes for their nest as did your mices. She was very indignant at my suggestion that she was vermin infested and was emphatic that they must have ...

If the moths have eaten your bushings, you can bet they have had a meal on the key baizes , centres and backtouch. Definitely the cushions.. Incidentally, does anyone else notice that moth damage has virtually disappeared nowadays? Every jo we used to take automatically had to have all the above rep...

Danemanns had a line in curved top pianos.

Never was very good at anatomy- I mean FOUR repetitions

Buenos Dias!
I make it's age 1920. Beautiful pianos.
Bill Kibby will keep me right.

In the Monington and Weston Factory, the ultimate test of regulation was to run the tips of the fingers of one hand rapidly vertically down the front of every key.You should get five repetitions

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