travelling paper

[Jason Kanter]

Thanks for the feedback. Consider your advice taken. So do you wet the brown
paper's glue?

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jason kanter * piano tuning * piano teaching
bellevue, wa * 425 562 4127 * cell 425 831 1561
orcas island * 360 376 2799
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> From: A440A@aol.com
> Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 10:20:02 EST
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: travelling paper
> 
> Jason writes: 
>> I use masking tape. Before travelling the hammers, I lay out about 6" of
>> 1"
>> masking tape on a piece of 1x3 and use a razor blade to slice it into strips
>> about 1/8" wide. These are easy to pick up with tweezers, easy to place,
>> stay where you put them, and are easy to remove.
> 
> Aha!  so you are the one?  (:)}}
> I have regulated several actions where masking tape was used and would
> really like to discourage it, (for two reasons).
> One is that the longer strips of brown tape are easier and quicker to
> handle.  I usually have five or six lengths hanging out in front of the
> flanges as I work. This puts them very close at hand and as I decide how wide
> a piece the next flange's traveling or spacing calls for,  I have the full
> range right there on the rail, I just tear it off from under the edge of the
> flange it was used on last and put it on the one I am working with.  This
> keeps me from constantly picking up the dropped pieces of paper, or looking
> around for the next one.
> The second is more long term.  I don't think that the masking tape is as
> stable as the brown paper.   The masking's adhesive is solvent based,(as
> opposed to water based brown tape, and it gums onto the rail felt(Steinway).
> When the flange is unscrewed and pulled off to retravel or space, it usually
> makes a mess that requires completely repapering the flange.  On the older
> Steinways that used linen, I have seen masking tape that tears the cloth,
> creating a new set of problems when putting the flange back in place. (I
> don't reuse the old cloth on action rebuilds, but working on older actions,
> in place, I do like that cloth to stay on the rail when I pull that 70 year
> old flange off to travel or space it.
> Just my thoughts,
> Ed Foote RPT