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Worked on a 1919 Knabe, filed hammers, set blow distance, aligned hammers to strings, tweaked jacks to knuckles, set letoff and drop. This Knabe's keyframe is screwed to the bed and the soft pedal lifts the hammers. Is this a low line model?

It is either an ex-player or designed to be a player.

BDB, I think you hit it on the head. It had a notch in the middle of the keybed -below the slip- but I saw no evidence of a player system. thks

Went to the cottages Friday, opened up the 2nd one and spent the weekend.

For those of you that are interested, Bill Bremmer will be arriving at my house within the hour to present his EBVT III to our chapter tomorrow evening from 7-9 PM.

went to courthouse in Botetourt co VA and did genealogical research, my mental ;-)

Tuned a wonderful Yamaha C3 grand at a church, followed by a Samick grand at a high school. After that, a 150 cent pitch raise on a 1960's vintage Cable spinet (both I and the piano survived!), and finally a 1923 Ludwig grand.

Practiced aural tuning... aligned strings/hammers on a S&S O rebuild.

Re-glued and straightened out several keys that were broken due to hard playing on a grand at a church that some tooner must have tried to do a quick fix on. He must have put them back on the keyframe without letting the glue set. All of the keys took on a rather large bowed shape. Kind of like a rainbow. Why do I always get to follow these clowns.

Curry, maybe you should change your name to Big Top Ring Leader!!!!

Hey, you aren't the only one Curry! They're everywhere. Kind of like ants! GIANT ants!

I only tuned 2 today. Spent the rest of the PM responding to emails, setting up two more action jobs, a Yammie C7 and a P22 for August. No more action jobs for this coming summer. No more time left. Will be sub contracting out the rest if more comes in.

Dang Jer, you looking to adopt? A really big kid? with tools!

Glued leather to the catchers of the middle section of my Zimmermann project piano after having removed the old leather (well, what was left) over the weekend. Treble section still to be done.

Noticed that most of the butt plate screws in the bass section were loose. Could this be related to the fact that I heated the bass shanks last week to bend them, and this has removed some moisture from the butts, making the plates loose? The butt plates in the middle and treble sections, while not very tight, weren't nearly as loose as in the bass. The bass hammers were actually wobbling from side to side.

No! I already have two really big kids that use all of my tools (steal is more like it) break them, never replace them, never put them back and then I can't find them.!!!

Well, off to Greenville. Les knows where that is, don't cha Les???

Well I do now!! I've got non piano related projects today...

Tuned a Lindeman upright in a church this morning...great tone! Came home to mow for a bit, and burned up the drive belt on the rider mower before I could even start...grrrr. Headed to a NYSSMA festival to accompany some of the local school students for their vocal solos. Fortunately, I was only in 2 rooms, and played on decent pianos that were in tune (doesn't always happen that they're in tune, or decent). One was a new Story & Clark studio...responsive action, with a plesant, mellow tone. The other piano was a new Yamaha...I didn't have time to check the model, but it seemed taller than a studio, but shorter than a U1...and was a funky dark purplish/brown color...but it was nice to play. Tone was not too bright, not too mellow...worked perfectly for the soloists.

Oh, and I tuned an OK 1950's Kimball spinet (the only one that exists?) in-between accompanying the solos.

hmm, first Saturday with SUUUNNSHINE!!! in VA this year, so I am out in spa reading for 3rd time in my life ,,,( 2nd year on this, mind you.....) "Atlas Shrugged" . I only pleasure read in summer in spa, so figure I will finish it some time next summer. I am totally focused on building tan for beach week with lady friends in less than 3 weeks, Serious tanning needs to happen..

Yea it seems like it's the first Saturday with sunshine up here as well. (Toronto).
Today I was building a pergola on my back deck and I got a lot of sun. (I'm red but it'll turn brown very quickly).
I can feel the fresh vitamin D surging through my veins as we speak.
I already had a good start on a tan from one particularly nice sunny day over a week ago that I spent in my hammock in my garden

Here the spring has so far been horribly cold with constant rain. My nectarine tree has a bad case of leaf curl caused by a fungus (that loves the cool damp weather) and the humidity for the last few days has not been great for the piano.

All of a sudden I have an intermittent note issue on one often used A#. I could use a tune too but this is a long weekend up here and I wouldn't be able to get my tuner for a while.

The humidity here generally swings from about 20% in the winter to a sauna for a few weeks in the late summer. Today and yesterday its been about 60-65% humidity which can't be good for my Hailun.
I guess I'm going to have to start looking into a Dampp-Chaser for it.
I haven't really thought about one before but I guess I'll start doing the research on how effective they are (I know they seem to be very well liked here).
I never turn on my central air and I like leaving doors and windows open in the summer so I guess a DC would be the way to go.

Today... I pulled pitch on an M Steinway another quarter tone and now have it where I want it for summer in VA. This baby is sweet! She came in a full tone low after a rebuild 6 years ago and NO follow up tuning, and now is holding her own. Have regulated action also. She will be beautiful and sounds great already. I love her.

ps, in general I hate damp chasers. I have one in a church inside an older Yamaha upright that seems to be effective. But, it could also be that the piano is in an enclosed little alcove that shelters it from extremes.
Damp chasers can wreck a pin block in a heart beat, dry it out too much. So the over-all add water system, people don't do. Those systems on grands are a waste. My opinion.