[CAUT] disabling individual notes

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Cloth will work loose under heavy playing.
Joe Goss RPT
Mother Goose Tools
imatunr at srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <reggaepass at aol.com>
To: <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 5:00 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] disabling individual notes


> Jeff,
> 
> Removing the hammer assemblies was my first thought, as that would be 
> very quick and would surely disable the notes in question.  (It would 
> definitely be much faster than pulling the stack to add to the front 
> rail pile, although for $100/hr I will gladly do it!)  Problem was that 
> the keys sagged in front without sufficient weight present over the 
> capstan, and the pianist found that unacceptable.
> 
> Any particular reason you would use cardboard punchings instead of 
> cloth?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Tanner <jtanner at mozart.sc.edu>
> To: College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>
> Sent: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 2:34 pm
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] disabling individual noes
> 
> 
> On Aug 15, 2007, at 4:46 PM, reggaepass at aol.com wrote:
> Greetings List(s),
> Someone is paying me handsomely to realize their own tuning system for 
> a couple of performances this weekend. As a safety precaution, he 
> would like to have the notes that he doesn't actually play (all of the 
> Cs and Ebs, in this case) disabled. The best idea I have come up with 
> so far is to add another front rail cloth punching on top of the one 
> that is already there for these keys, so the keys will barely depress.
> Is there a better/easier way?
> I would probably opt for a stack of thick card punchings rather than 
> cloth, but that was just what I thought of first. Seems like removing 
> the hammers/shanks would be a little less trouble than pulling the 
> stack and shimming each key front, but either way would do accomplish 
> what you're wanting to do. 
> Jeff
> 
> Thanks,
> Alan 
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