Lifting strings

[Jon Page]

David,
Try a spinet caster mounted into the end of a scrap of
pin block material (1.5" square bar, or something there-about)
and place a fulcrum on the keybed. The rolling action of the
wheel rocks into the v-bar and the diameter of the wheel reduces
the chances of placing a bend in the wire.

I just cleaned up the unisons on a pianos which was restrung 20
years ago by removing this natural curve.

In a way I guess you could call it the terminator.

Regards,

Jon Page

At 08:23 PM 11/18/1999 -0800, you wrote:
>List,
>
>I believe I remember a device someone made, might have 
>been Susan Graham, that you use from the keybed to lift 
>(push from below actually) all the strings.  I would like to try 
>this in hopes of better consistancy from unison to unison.  It 
>wasn't just a brass bar and pushing from below but maybe a 
>cam shape for consistant pressure.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>
>David Ilvedson, RPT
>Pacifica, CA
>ilvey@jps.net
>  
Jon Page,  Harwich Port,  Cape Cod,  Mass.  mailto:jpage@capecod.net
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