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  • 1.  Challenge: What would you do?

    Posted 11-27-2017 18:23
    Top 12 notes ( trichords) of a scale are all .031, except one note the middle, It is .017. It's original. All lengths progress consecutively. 
    Reputable maker. Do you assume it's a mistake and change it? Or leave it? Or something else?
    -CHRIS
    #caveman

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  • 2.  RE: Challenge: What would you do?

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 11-27-2017 18:53
    If the string length and pitch indicate it should be .031" then I would change it.

    Pwg

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    Peter Grey
    Stratham NH
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  • 3.  RE: Challenge: What would you do?

    Posted 11-27-2017 20:47
    Thank you Peter. Obvious sequential pattern, obvious mistake. Certainly wouldn't leave it, or keep it that way when restringing. Why copy a mistake.



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  • 4.  RE: Challenge: What would you do?

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 11-27-2017 20:39
    How do you know it's original? Maybe It was a bad repair done by someone who had impeccable technique 100 years ago.

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    Karl Roeder
    Pompano Beach FL
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  • 5.  RE: Challenge: What would you do?

    Posted 11-27-2017 21:04
    Karl,
    Maybe it's the .017 stamp.



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  • 6.  RE: Challenge: What would you do?

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 11-27-2017 22:05
    So a guy with impeccable technique can't have a stamp and ink pad to cover his tracks? I certainly do.

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    Karl Roeder
    Pompano Beach FL
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  • 7.  RE: Challenge: What would you do?

    Posted 11-27-2017 22:08
    Karl,
    So you must have intimate knowledge of this piano then?
    Oh.........
    that explains the KR stamp.



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  • 8.  RE: Challenge: What would you do?

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 11-28-2017 07:49
    And I would have gotten away with it if not for those meddling kids!

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    Karl Roeder
    Pompano Beach FL
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