Thunderbird Club

[Stealth57]

Well, I guess you can Spinet any way you want, but it’s still pretty Grand of you to consider some of us Players when we don’t even tinkle the ivory. Personally, I can think of 88 reasons I’m not a piano player, no doubt about it, it’s all pretty black and white.
Always got a kick out of this guy though…

 

[Gaolee]

Whose house?

As a guy who as a kid played piano for years, I’m fascinated. My guitar player buddy’s sister bought a new Steinway in ‘74 for 10k. Imagine what it’s worth now. That Austrian gem is priceless.

I will be getting back into piano once I’m sorted on bass and guitar. Now that I’m concentrating on reading bass notation, I’m shocked that it’s coming back faster than I ever hoped. It’s been fits and starts until now that I’m retired.

Retirement is highly recommended. Just sayin’.

Enabling just took an interesting turn.

 

[Gaolee]

Will it fit in your basement? It could fit in mine. Like that will never happen.

It would fit by itself, maybe. Getting it down the stairs would be a little tougher than the piano that's already down there. The boy and the girl are moving to Monterey where they will be music teachers at the same school. They are hoping to buy a house, and it better be big enough for the piano that's in the basement. I'm pretty sure they both want it. It's a 1950 Baldwin that's way out of tune, but hasn't been moved much in its 75 years of existence.

 

[Gaolee]

I’ve read somewhere that she does.

If she doesn't play, she sure can fake it. She looks like she knows what she's doing, although it's hard to tell from the way the camera jumps around.

 

[Gaolee]

slow progress....off to the machine shop......
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I did something similar to a TR-2 motor back when I was a teenager. It was the last motor I rebuilt, and as soon as I put it in the car, it immediately smoked the clutch. So things had to come apart again.

 

[Stealth57]

It would fit by itself, maybe. Getting it down the stairs would be a little tougher than the piano that's already down there. The boy and the girl are moving to Monterey where they will be music teachers at the same school. They are hoping to buy a house, and it better be big enough for the piano that's in the basement. I'm pretty sure they both want it. It's a 1950 Baldwin that's way out of tune, but hasn't been moved much in its 75 years of existence.

3 stairs up and a step down and it took 6 to move it without a dolly. Upright grand with a brass harp and late 1800s American Walnut. First tuning mark is 1906.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I did something similar to a TR-2 motor back when I was a teenager. It was the last motor I rebuilt, and as soon as I put it in the car, it immediately smoked the clutch. So things had to come apart again.

was that a four?

 

[BuddhaFingas]

¿Por qué?

Butter not go there

 

[Gaolee]

was that a four?

It was. It was essentially a tractor engine. Bulletproof if you didn't overrev it. It was well worn by the time I got my completely ignorant of mechanical things hands on it. I learned a whole lot of lessons taking it apart and putting it back together again. Taking apart a bigger motor and putting it back together again isn't what I want to do. That was one of those lessons. A Triumph six wouldn't be much more effort than a four, so there's that. The block just isn't that big. I know that one person can lift a small block Chevy as long as it is the bare block. I know this from disassembling one after blowing it sky high and needing to get the resulting bent and scored bits to the dump. That motor was absolutely, positively not rebuildable.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

It was. It was essentially a tractor engine. Bulletproof if you didn't overrev it. It was well worn by the time I got my completely ignorant of mechanical things hands on it. I learned a whole lot of lessons taking it apart and putting it back together again. Taking apart a bigger motor and putting it back together again isn't what I want to do. That was one of those lessons. A Triumph six wouldn't be much more effort than a four, so there's that. The block just isn't that big. I know that one person can lift a small block Chevy as long as it is the bare block. I know this from disassembling one after blowing it sky high and needing to get the resulting bent and scored bits to the dump. That motor was absolutely, positively not rebuildable.

interesting you mention, the 2.5L in the pic was apparently designed for the TR-6 and ended up in the saloons as well (MK2500) but as you say, total truck motor built the American way of ohv and torquey........the machinist stressed the high nickel content (and hence high quality) of the construction and attributed it to the mil level quality of the

metallurgy of the day....

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

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Butter not go there

gotta love our culture.....

 

[Gaolee]

interesting you mention, the 2.5L in the pic was apparently designed for the TR-6 and ended up in the saloons as well (MK2500) but as you say, total truck motor built the American way of ohv and torquey........the machinist stressed the high nickel content (and hence high quality) of the construction and attributed it to the mil level quality of the

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metallurgy of the day....

Given enough room for two garage ornaments, I would love to have a British roadster again. The Camaro, once it is finished, will take up all the space in my garage. As you are demonstrating, a British roadster requires a certain amount of space-consuming care and maintenance. They are some of the easiest machines to work on that I can imagine, short of a motorcycle and maybe even including quite a few motorcycles. Nothing is very big and there is usually room to reach it. The fasteners might be a bit random a times. Rust was a huge problem on my Triumph. I wouldn't buy another rusty one, but when you are scrounging up pennies at the age of 13 to buy the car of your adolescent dreams, rust is a secondary issue. I still have those same dreams, just minus the rust if I ever have another Triumph or MG. I had an MGBGT for a while, too. That was a car that could live in the driveway most of the time and not leak.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Well, I guess you can Spinet any way you want, but it’s still pretty Grand of you to consider some of us Players when we don’t even tinkle the ivory. Personally, I can think of 88 reasons I’m not a piano player, no doubt about it, it’s all pretty black and white.
Always got a kick out of this guy though…

Stringing us along while back pedaling, as usual.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Enabling just took an interesting turn.

How many pianos does Marshall need? Just one more. Always just one more.

I'll stencil a giant Thunderbird on his Steinway! Then if he ever sells it on Reverb, he can note "RARE! ONE OF A KIND!"

 

[Miles_ONeal]

gotta love our culture.....
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Don't go hating on margarinized people.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Given enough room for two garage ornaments, I would love to have a British roadster again. The Camaro, once it is finished, will take up all the space in my garage. As you are demonstrating, a British roadster requires a certain amount of space-consuming care and maintenance. They are some of the easiest machines to work on that I can imagine, short of a motorcycle and maybe even including quite a few motorcycles. Nothing is very big and there is usually room to reach it. The fasteners might be a bit random a times. Rust was a huge problem on my Triumph. I wouldn't buy another rusty one, but when you are scrounging up pennies at the age of 13 to buy the car of your adolescent dreams, rust is a secondary issue. I still have those same dreams, just minus the rust if I ever have another Triumph or MG. I had an MGBGT for a while, too. That was a car that could live in the driveway most of the time and not leak.

originally a Maryland registered car so no surprise on the rust...good time to treat with the motor out...

Check out the Buick/Rover V8 in the MGB in the background.....

And of course.....THUNDERBIRDS!!!

 

[TBird1958]

Whose house?

As a guy who as a kid played piano for years, I’m fascinated. My guitar player buddy’s sister bought a new Steinway in ‘74 for 10k. Imagine what it’s worth now. That Austrian gem is priceless.

I will be getting back into piano once I’m sorted on bass and guitar. Now that I’m concentrating on reading bass notation, I’m shocked that it’s coming back faster than I ever hoped. It’s been fits and starts until now that I’m retired.

Retirement is highly recommended. Just sayin’.

The house was started by a fellow named Hollister Sprague, he happened to be William Boeing's attorney, it was finished in 1936 by his son. Sold a couple of times over the years (including to Sean Kinney) it is presently owned by this man:
https://b-townblog.com/buriens-john...-into-new-era-with-groundbreaking-technology/

He's a very nice man, he and his wife bought us a couple rounds at the 909 some time back so we left money to buy them a nice bottle of wine upon their next visit, we'll be doing that again this evening as a thank you.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

The house was started by a fellow named Hollister Sprague, he happened to be William Boeing's attorney, it was finished in 1936 by his son. Sold a couple of times over the years (including to Sean Kinney) it is presently owned by this man:
https://b-townblog.com/buriens-john...-into-new-era-with-groundbreaking-technology/

He's a very nice man, he and his wife bought us a couple rounds at the 909 some time back so we left money to buy them a nice bottle of wine upon their next visit, we'll be doing that again this evening as a thank you.

Not the technology hotspot I was expecting. Very cool.

 

[MCF]

How many pianos does Marshall need? Just one more. Always just one more.

I'll stencil a giant Thunderbird on his Steinway! Then if he ever sells it on Reverb, he can note "RARE! ONE OF A KIND!"

I will likely get a keyboard like the one Kirstin in the Sean Conneries plays. If my niece doesn’t want my old Kimball piano I had as a kid any more, that may end up in the basement.

 

[MCF]

The house was started by a fellow named Hollister Sprague, he happened to be William Boeing's attorney, it was finished in 1936 by his son. Sold a couple of times over the years (including to Sean Kinney) it is presently owned by this man:
https://b-townblog.com/buriens-john...-into-new-era-with-groundbreaking-technology/

He's a very nice man, he and his wife bought us a couple rounds at the 909 some time back so we left money to buy them a nice bottle of wine upon their next visit, we'll be doing that again this evening as a thank you.

Very cool friends.