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PianoGuy wrote:

Spinball wrote: There you go - this illustrates my lack of basic knowledge about pianos.

Cars too. Spark plugs have nothing to do with timing, and gators live in swamps.

Absolutely true, which is how I could easily make the analogy

Here's an example. When I played any of the very top few notes, there was a significant ringing from the other top strings. I asked if this is normal. He said yes. If asked, I would have said this was a fault. I would have said that if you hit any note, you shouldn't hear an obvious sympathetic rin...

I don't want to be unfair to the guy. But as I stated earlier, I know nothing about pianos. I have no better appreciation of what is right and wrong about a piano than the average non-piano playing person. I.e. I could tell if something was obviously not right. Sticking key, obviously out of tune et...

Model V wrote:Spinball,

If you give us a rough idea of your location, one of us will probably be able to recommend someone who we could trust to check that the job has been done well for you.

MV

We're in Telford. Would appreciate a recommendation.

The work is already done on the action and he is visiting Friday to finish off. It's adjusting the springs, not replacing them. He says he has done regulation work on the action while it is in the jig. It was one of those rare (for me) situations where he just hurled some figures at me and I took hi...

Thanks. So what do you think of the prices and how do you recommend I check the work?

Hello folks, I have commissioned some maintenance work on the action of a 1960s Welmar baby grand we have just bought. I know nothing about pianos and rather foolishly gave the go-ahead on the work without doing any cross checking on prices. Which is very a-typical of me as I usually do lots of rese...