shopping at convention, was Re: It was all my fault

[Z! Reinhardt]

Voicing tools ... it all depends on what you find most comfortable to work
with.  I have a "chopstick" tool with a single needle, a stubby little thing
for voicing upright hammers without removing the action, and a heavy-duty
serious-damage tool capable of pulverizing the hardest hammers.  The little
stubby thing is capable of holding 4 needles, but I only use 1 needle in it.
It is to uprights what the chopstick tool is to grands.  The heavy-duty one
holds 3 needles.  Any action with a set of hammers that requires using that
one is best removed from the piano and the hammers in question supported and
immobilized so as not to mess up the pinning.

Z! Reinhardt  RPT
Ann Arbor  MI
diskladame@provide.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Neuman" <piano@charlesneuman.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: shopping at convention, was Re: It was all my fault


Can't wait for the tool shopping.

Speaking of tools, let me ask this: How many voicing tools would you have
in a typical toolkit? From what I've read, there are voicing techniques
that might involve one, two, three, or four needles in a voicing tool. My
voicing tool is one that fits in a combination handle. So it seems like it
would make sense to have at least two of these, or even more, to avoid
having to add and remove needles from just one. What do you think?

Charles