jpiesik@arinc.com wrote: > > > The response is pretty much what I expected, but not what I had hoped for. It > is amazing to me that for the last 67 years there has not been developed a > proven, standard tool or device for holding drop stickers up and out of the way > during the servicing of drop actions. Okay John, Let's see if we can design something together! 1. Take two action sticks like those that come with new grands and screw them together wide side to wide side. Figure out the spacing between action parts in the different sections of the piano (bass wide,treb close). Hold the sticks in front of the action brackets and mark their positions on the edge of the sticks. Take a small straight edge or small try square and mark off bass intervals on the stick edges in the bass section of the sticks and likewise in the other sections. Take your sticks to the drill press, insert a 1/8th inch bit and drill each mark at the joint between the sticks. Drill throughout the section. The next spinet may have less or more parts per section. Remove the screws from the sticks and you have two spinet sticker controllers! All we have to do is figure out how to attach them to the action brackets. Let me know what you use. The first thing I'm going to try is an Accrosonic sticker and see if I can find a wing nut to fit it! Good Luck! Warren -- Warren D. Fisher fish@communique.net Registered Piano Technician Piano Technicians Guild New Orleans Chapter 701
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