This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/related attachment ------=_NextPart_001_005D_01C3A2CE.2A17EE80 Hello Gordon. Just a couple weeks ago I leveled coils on a piano the was = likely restrung a good 50 years ago - an 1880s Knabe square grand. First = of all, the Mother of All Coil Lifter from Joe Goss - picture below. I = guess I should have put something next to it for scale, but it is twice = the size of the junkers from Schaff and it has a hardened tip. No coil = will be unlevel as long as I have this tool! Below is a picture of the horrible coils I was facing. I was afraid to = even try and tune it because so many of the strings were already getting = mashed down into the plate. The root of the problem on this piano was = that the holes for the tuning pins were drill about 20 degrees off of = vertical - the coils will naturally go down unless someone is determined = to force them up - at least temporarily. Actually, I did not use Joe's tool on this piano - I use his too for = perfecting the coils. On this horror project I used the little pry-bar = type coil lifter available from the supply houses. I just let tension = down on the strings enough so that the coil would lift via the pry tool. = Then I tightened the strings back up and tuned. Oh, and I also pounded = the pins in more as they were too high to start with and many of the = pins were too loose to hold pitch. I also CAed the pins (you can likely = see some of my CA mess on the plate and pins - hey, at least the darn = thing is toonable now!). Regarding the becket - just take a pair of pliers when you let the = tension down and squeeze them puppies.=20 What else can I tell ya? Hope this helps. Terry Farrell ----- Original Message -----=20 From: "Gordon Holley" <gholley@hi-techhousing.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 11:05 AM Subject: Leveling Coils & Pinching Becket > List. I tuned a Kranish & Bach 5' Grand, 1918, last Saturday and was=20 > amazed at a terrible job of restringing another local technician (not=20 > a PTG member) did some 20 years back. The owners had no idea what=20 > they were looking at but here's what I saw. >=20 > 1. The pins were too high above the plate. > 2. The coils were not leveled AT ALL. > 3. The becket was not pinched in to the pin leaving a very visable=20 > open loop before coming back to the pin on the first coil. > 4. The strings were not spaced properly at all.=20 >=20 > I have read through my filed conversations between Roger Jolly, Ed=20 > Foote, Joe Garrett, Jim Bryant, Isaac Oleg, Ron Nossaman, Richard=20 > Brekne and Alan Barnard, on the subject of "String Settling" back on=20 > July 12 & 13, 2003. >=20 > Joe Jarrett said that Jim Bryant gave him a coil setting tool, which=20 > I would assume would be used when restringing. Is a picture of this=20 > tool available? >=20 > Main question: I've not tried to level coils 20 years after the=20 > piano was restrung. How is it done?. I do have the typical string=20 > leveling tool. This I didn't find in the discussions between these=20 > sage individuals. >=20 > Regards,=20 > Gordon Holley > Associate Member, Indiana Chapter 467 > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > ------=_NextPart_001_005D_01C3A2CE.2A17EE80 An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/14/35/ae/fe/attachment.htm ------=_NextPart_001_005D_01C3A2CE.2A17EE80-- ---------------------- multipart/related attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 21066 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/8a/00/3c/8f/attachment.jpe ---------------------- multipart/related attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 31684 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/59/9a/ca/cd/attachment.jpe ---------------------- multipart/related attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 37301 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/5a/bc/22/25/attachment.jpe ---------------------- multipart/related attachment--
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