[CAUT] Pitchlock

[Alan McCoy]

Eric,

So far they have fit all the ones I have tried. The couplers did need to be
widened slightly (by bending with needlenose) to fit the wider spaced
strings.

Alan


> From: "Wolfley, Eric (wolfleel)" <WOLFLEEL@UCMAIL.UC.EDU>
> Reply-To: "College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>" <caut@ptg.org>
> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:40:09 -0500
> To: 'College and University Technicians' <caut@ptg.org>
> Subject: RE: [CAUT] Pitchlock
> 
> I ditto Fred on this one...I guess those pitchlock clamps are large enough
> to span a bass bichord. Or does he offer different sizes for that?
> 
> Eric Wolfley, RPT
> Supervising Piano Technician
> College-Conservatory of Music
> University of Cincinnati
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Sturm [mailto:fssturm@unm.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 4:31 PM
> To: College and University Technicians
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Pitchlock
> 
> On 3/29/05 1:55 PM, "Alan McCoy" <amccoy@mail.ewu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> The other application that I am interested in is to couple mismatched (and
>> therefore untunable) bass strings. I've put the pitchlock clamps on
> several
>> pairs of bass strings of untunable notes and I've been amazed at how the
>> tone and tunability is improved. These are put on the pair of strings
>> between the agraffe and the winding.
> 
> No kidding? That's a great discovery! I'll try it for sure (if I can put my
> hands on those free samples Scott Jones sent. Somewhere in the "archives.").
> Thanks!
> Regards,
> Fred Sturm
> University of New Mexico
> 
> 
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