This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... Chapter II. ON PIANO REPAIRING. One of the most important of the piano tuner's duties is the repairing of old instruments. Even today there are numberless old squares in the homes of people in moderate circumstances, which are still capable of being made fit for many years of service, and whose owners ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... Chapter II. ON PIANO REPAIRING. One of the most important of the piano tuner's duties is the repairing of old instruments. Even today there are numberless old squares in the homes of people in moderate circumstances, which are still capable of being made fit for many years of service, and whose owners are unwilling or unable to afford the expense of new instruments. The same statement may be made to apply with equal force to uprights and grands. Everywhere the intelligent tuner finds pianos of every kind in a more or less wrecked condition; pianos that are too good to be discarded and equally too good to be sacrificed in a trade for new instruments. Such pianos are fair game for the good repairer, who is often enabled to restore them to something like their pristine vigor and thus earn good fees and much gratitude from the owners. The field for repairing is almost unlimited, and there is no tuner with an independent practice but should regard the repairing branch as most important to his reputation and pocket. Nevertheless, it will be found that a knowledge of the essential principles of repairing is by no means as well developed or as evenly distributed among the tuners as it should be. This lamentable state of affairs arises largely from the fact that the factory offers little encouragement to one who may desire a knowledge of the conditions surrounding the deterioration and decay of old instruments, while the average wareroom is hardly much better off in this respect. Speaking from experience, it can be said that virtually nothing about repairing is to be learned in factories, although the knowledge of practical action finishing, regulating, stringing and tone-regulating, there gained, is of inestimable value. But the restoration of...
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