[CAUT] Black on Black... (Jack alignment)

[Paul T Williams]

Hi All

I just read the Central West Regional News and Trevor Nelson had some very 
positive things to say about the sharing of ideas we all input to fellow 
guild members.  I am proud to be in an organization which doesn't 
selfishly hold on to "secrets" to appear better than another tech.  As he 
states, "It's easy to forget that in most other parts of the world, such a 
fertile exchange of ideas doesn't take place, because our profession is 
extremely tradition-bound; or, piano technicians are reticent to share 
their work "secrets" with each other... Think of how long it would take 
one technician to come up with a better tool or technique, compared to two 
or four.  How about four hundred? or four thousand?"

This subject is facinating to me as I use the "align my eyeball with the 
plane of the jack/knuckle, but as Fred states, to have your "eyeball 
sighting" not perfectly lined up the same way every time can indeed skew 
the result.  The hammers under the pinblock method is tempting and I might 
try it and then double check with my eyeball method to see just how much 
variance of consistancy shows up.  What we all want in the end is a 
consistant feel for the pianist.  It is he/she that we all really work 
for.

Best,

Paul T Williams
UNL




Tim Coates <tcoates1 at sio.midco.net> 
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Fred,

I think if you re-read Michael Wathen's comments he attributes this method 
to "Garlick".  For those who are too young to remember, that would be Bill 
Garlick.    A person who used to be a very valuable member of the PTG.   

For me, you are wrong about the rapid flick motion.  But you can do that 
if you want.  You know what works best for you.  It's nice to have a good 
exchange of ideas without one person judging and insisting they have the 
only correct answer.  

Tim Coates


On Aug 7, 2007, at 7:13 PM, Fred Sturm wrote:

    I do like Michael Wathen’s method if it’s used for finding cheating 
jacks. Very convenient not to have to hold your finger or hand on each 
hammer. And I’ll suggest that a rapid flick motion rather than a hard 
press is best to find those borderline cases. Fast as you can, but not 
necessarily much force, will find them best.


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