Interesting Piano Belly - Mehlin Grand

[David Love]

Ron:

I think I know what you're saying--but I'm not totally sure.  Anyway, I
ended up voicing this particular Boston with pliers.  I really hate doing it
that way, it seems sort of vulgar.  But I couldn't get a needle into the
thing to save my life.  The pliers actually worked pretty well.  One squeeze
at 10:00 and one at 2:00 and the hammers sounded more like sandstone than
granite.  Yes, that was an improvement.

David Love


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@cox.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: July 18, 2002 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: Interesting Piano Belly - Mehlin Grand


I do a few of these. One owner has insisted that we abandon the brushing
and getting used to it stuff (after all, she bought it sounding like this
(and the Hamilton in the basement)), and steam the rocks out of it with the
fall tuning - if she can stand it that long. I think she's right.

Ron N