Hi Dwight, My 2 cents is don't even try it without removing the hammers. You will save time. Sometimes taking the approach that seems the more tedious, one saves. Marcel Carey, RPT moment@pacbell.net wrote: > List: > > I've been enjoying this list for a month. To respond to your poll, I attended > Perkins School of Piano Technology in Cleveland in 1974-75. Perkins taught some > questionable methods, such as using sleeves to tighten loose tuning pins (.024" > is overkill). No one in attendance ever saw the man tune a piano. He only > taught us how to temper using fourths and fifths. I learned to add thirds and > sixths later, on my own. > > During the intervening years I worked for dealers in Tampa and South Florida > before moving to Southern California. I tried my hand at refinishing and > restringing. I've avoided player pianos like the plague but acutally did repair > a player when I lived for a short time in Battle Mountain, Nevada. Over time I > learned that to be proficient one needs to perform a task consistently, so doing > occasional refinish jobs was not my path. I tune and do action repairs and > regulations. The rest of the work I refer. > > Had I stayed in Tampa I would probably have joined PTG. I was doing quite a bit > of work with John Ragusa who was very involved with the Guild and eventually > became president of his chapter. I even went to a state convention with him. > > I'd like to now solicit the members of the list for a suggestion. I just picked > up a Yamaha studio action with many broken butt flange cords. The cords are > brown, not the usual white. I don't want to remove the hammers. At this point > I'm thinking of detaching the bridal straps and letting the whips drop to gain > access to the screw side of the flange to facilitate attaching new cords. I > suppose I'll use parachute cord (I've used it to replace grand whip cords). > Being so close to the center pin I'm afraid to use CA so I'm thinking of using > tweezers and prewetting the ends of the cord with Titebond. Any suggestions? > Any slick tool ideas? I have a feeling this could be very tedious and > straining. I'm very far-sighted so this kind of fine work is difficult if I > have to do it by eye. > > Thanks > Dwight Keyes > Keyes Piano Tuning > (714) 521-1305 > > "I know not why it is that a man struggles his whole life to reach the pinnacle > and then throws himself into the abyss, I only know that it is so." > --Oscar Wilde, while serving two years' hard labour >
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