"I" Bridge

[Robin Blankenship]

I carry one brass bristled brush and two different 'strengths' of steel (one
a bit stiffer than the other). That gives me some lattitude in dealing with
differing hammer conditions. Dittos on it's being a crowd pleaser. It can
make the difference between just 'tuning' the piano and making it sound
beautiful again.

Robin
----- Original Message -----
From: David ilvedson <ilvey@jps.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 1999 11:02 AM
Subject: Re: "I" Bridge


>My bristles are plastic but firm and short.  I haven't tried brass
>as I would have thought it would remove TOO much of the high
>end but I'll give it a try.
>
>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