thanks for all the help moving the piano!

[ulysses]

x( Lazy bastards.

We're in the new house, deeper into the Red Georgia countryside than I ever thought we'd live. As befits my new surroundings, you can expect me to rapidly begin to toe the conservative line, forsaking old homosexual friends and burning the capital gains tax in effigy.

Or not. ;-)

[meegbear]

1. All because we didn't help with the piano?

Cheesh!

[ulysses]

2. I'm a high-maintenance liberal.

;-)

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Need To Retune The Piano, Now?

I'll be right over. Got the strobe and hammer. Lots of work. You'll have to make dinner.
The Professor

[ulysses]

4. it needs more work than tuning,

but it does need to tuned, yes. It needed that before we moved it.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. I Can Reset Pins and Repair Escapement

If you need new hammer felts, though, COUNT ME OUT! That's a PAIN! And, buying all new hammers is really expensive.

Resetting pins can be done with an injected polymer called "Liquid Pin Block". It works better than i would have imagined. Really, anybody with a small drill can do it. Escapement work is hard, too, but not as tedious as refelting a hammer.

I learned to do this when i was a kid, because the city's most well-known piano tuner (we only had about 75k people when i was kid there) was a family friend. So, he taught me all kinds of tricks.

I take care of my own these days. I rebuilt the one i had before the Baldwin. Took every single thing apart, cleaned it, put it all back together. Good thing i have a patient wife. Parts everywhere for weeks.
The Professor

[Misunderestimator]

15. Have I got a project for you....

Or eventually I will... My father has a 1922 Steinway baby grand that I will inherit one day... but it needs to be rebuilt. (Not sure what exactly that means, since that's all he told me that his tuner told him.) The estimate he got for the work was $5,000, so I'm thinking it's pretty extensive but probably not as far as replacing the sound board or anything like that.

That's cool that you learned to do all that. I can tune a piano, but it drives me insane, and takes me hours. :)

[GOPisEvil]

5. I had sympathy back pains, if that helps.

I suppose you'll fitted for your white sheet soon as well.

[ulysses]

6. here, have some sympathy Aleve.

The sheets will have to wait until after the cross-construction class tonight.

[demnan]

7. What kind of piano?

I have an 1850's Steiff. Basically it's a grand upright built of solid mahogony. It's still at my Mother's and will require at least 6 very strong men to move it if I ever occupy a space large enough to accomodate it.

The last time it was moved was 1968 in a snow storm.

[ulysses]

8. tall upright.

Probably 60s-70s vintage. It's not outrageously heavy - 4 of us wrestled it down the stairs at our old house, into the truck, out the truck and in the door here without *seriously* injuring ourselves.

[RubyDuby in GA]

10. Where oh where are you in deep red GA?

Please tell me you moved out my way....

[ulysses]

11. just inside Paulding Co.

north of Douglasville. Aren't you west of Atl?

[RubyDuby in GA]

12. Awww....boo hiss!

I'm in Covington, SE of Atlanta.

Congrats on the new place! When you're all settled, we need another DU meetup. :D

[ulysses]

13. we actually have the room for it now.

The last gathering we had at the house in DeKalb (Rancho Uly), Mike Malloy made fun of me because there were trees growing in the one gutter on the house. No gutter trees here. :)

If folks don't mind coming out here, we could certainly do a fall gathering here. It's a pisser we're not a short walk from CatWoman any more, though...

[RubyDuby in GA]

14. Oooohhhhhh.....sounds good

I'll make brownies :)

Gutter trees are cool (I've been known to neglect my gutters on occasion as well).