Paul, You could toss that understring cardboard/felt and replace it with a brass half-round or half-oval (pinned in place with #26 center pins or small spring pins) for the strings to rest on, and use a smaller piece of underfelt (or string braid) on either side of the brass for noise dampening. Of course the plate might be gummed up a bit under that cardboard.... Alan ________________________________ From: Paul T Williams <pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu> Reply-To: CAUTlist <caut at ptg.org> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 12:10:41 -0700 To: CAUTlist <caut at ptg.org> Subject: Re: [CAUT] When to restring...OT 1098's Hi Fred, Not that I'm going to dive into this nightmare, but do you do this with 1098's? (underfelt McLubing)? Kent Webb suggested this, I tried it, and IT WORKS!! It really made the tunings easier. But back to the Sty M..... I'm reminded now that I also replace understring felt and such when I restring. The nasty mid-section strip on the card-board type stuff, though is a pain to replace! Any hints on that? Best, Paul From: Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu> To: caut at ptg.org Date: 08/03/2010 01:53 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] When to restring... ________________________________ On Aug 3, 2010, at 10:20 AM, Paul T Williams wrote: When do you all decide when to restring a grand? I have now in the shop a S&S M from the 60's from one of our classrooms. At that age, I would restring the whole piano to make it more tunable (preferably a little earlier). It's a question of rendering strings, and I think the main factor is the string dragging on the felt (between agraffes and pins, and between duplexes and pins). Even without noticeable rust, I find the strings are draggy, and it is really hard to get solid tuning. My big emphasis when restringing is on capo shape and dealing with that drag issue - done by brushing McLube on the surface of the felt (Or rubbing in some powdered teflon). I just did a couple Yamaha G-2s from the 70s this summer, and the improvement is like night and day. I still have three or four Steinways from the 60s that haven't seen a restring, and they are my un-favorite pianos to tune. Too much work to get the unisons honed in and solid, and some of them invariably turn out not to be solid. I just can't move a string half a cent and have it stay with any certainty. That's the difference. Regards, Fred Sturm fssturm at unm.edu <mailto:fssturm at unm.edu> "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." Twain -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100803/2498bdcb/attachment.htm>
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