KS 27: Gauging the Plan - Part 1

KS 27: Gauging the Plan - Part 1

The ideal is to have this 1930 Mason & Hamlin A play as if it were new. With this in mind, which parts and materials can be kept? Which are too compromised? Is there budget and a route to achieving such an ideal? Cheapest kind may be appropriate for getting a few more seasons out of the 93-year-old, but it won't regulate or voice or play to its potential that way...
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KS 26: Begin Regulating with a Plan

KS 26: Begin Regulating with a Plan

In this discussion of regulating away from the piano, I have left out a lynchpin detail: how to get the action home. Grand actions are awkwardly wide, heavy, and at risk. Ideally, you should have a helper, of course. But even with another set of hands, such elements as distance, stairs, and weather threaten. I have long arms and until recently w...
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