David, I like to level strings with a string puller.. Run your puller up on the string a bit out from the termination (capo or agraffe) and pull it along to as close as you can get to the termination point. I do it by feel more than anything to see if the strings are level. Then mate the hammer to the strings for a uniform match! A bit of filing hammer tops will give you a good mate with the strings! Hope this helps Paul "David Ilvedson" <ilvey at sbcglobal.net> Sent by: caut-bounces at ptg.org 12/05/2008 02:35 PM Please respond to David Ilvedson <ilvey at sbcglobal.net>; Please respond to caut at ptg.org To caut at ptg.org cc Subject Re: [CAUT] pinning Richard, Re-reading some old email...how do you level strings? Everyone has their way of doing this... David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Richard Brekne" <ricb at pianostemmer.no> To: caut at ptg.org Received: 4/13/2008 11:46:09 AM Subject: [CAUT] pinning >Hi David >I know there are several opinions about how pinning can affect tone >and/or if it does at all to begin with but my experience tells me that >as solid a pinning as is possible without compromising the ability of >the action to play and repeat quickly is a precept for good voicing and >good projection. Whether it is because the tighter pining causes a more >solid path and impact moment, and less dispersion of impact energy back >through the system or not... I really dont know. I think like many such >subjects, the actual physics is something we do a lot of guessing at but >really dont <<know>> much about. That said... the difference in sound >and projection is real enough and its one of the things I do very early >on in any full voicing/regulation beef up I do on an instrument. Like >hammer mating and unisons being in a level plane. >Cheers >RicB > I have been having some interesting time with our Hamburg Steinway > here at Stanford. This is 9 years old. I filed the hammers for > the first time...I know, not heavy playing...but I repinned for the > 2nd time in a year. Went from 4 grams to 2 grams or so...I decided > to repin at 5 to 6 grams. The tone is projecting (tone above the > strings) to beat the band...the combination of careful filing and > repinning has, imho, brought the piano back to it's new piano > sound...I'd appreciate comment on center pinning/tone and concert > instruments... > David Ilvedson, RPT > Pacifica, CA 94044 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20081205/c6aa7fcb/attachment.html>
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