"I" Bridge

[David ilvedson]

In an emergency a business card between the case and bass 
side of the keyframe will do a little magic in even less time.  
Obviously a temporary fix and the hammers should be 
centered on the unison.  

David Ilvedson

Date sent:      	Sat, 22 May 1999 00:39:37 -0500 (CDT)
To:             	pianotech@ptg.org
From:           	Ron Nossaman <nossaman@southwind.net>
Subject:        	Re: "I" Bridge
Send reply to:  	pianotech@ptg.org

> 
> >I use a vegetable cleaning brush with bristles.  Does your 
> > voicing scrubber have bristles?  
> >
> >David Ilvedson
> >
> 
> Yep, brass. It cleans the crud out of the string cuts and raises the "nap"
> of the felt enough to eliminate a lot of the high painful partials. Raises a
> heck of a dust cloud in use, but it's about the cheapest magic I know, and
> the best $.69 I ever spent. You can make over $200 an hour for about five
> minutes brushing a set of hammers, and make $150 worth of difference in the
> sound for a few bucks worth of your time. A real crowd pleaser. A suede
> brush works very well too, but this old scrubber has a long handle so I
> don't take knuckles off (mine) on the pressure bar screws in verticals. I
> have no idea if they are still available, or what they cost by now. 
> 
>  Ron 
> 
> 


David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA
ilvey@jps.net