This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/related attachment ------=_NextPart_001_00E1_01C3A330.EA3B0500 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Farrell=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 5:21 PM Subject: Re: Leveling Coils & Pinching Becket 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! Please tell me how this tool works? You cinch the coils up from = underneath, so I can't guess at the action required. 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. How many of you noticed that the coils are the wrong way round? I once = came across a piano where a cowboy had replaced a couple of strings this = way. I didn't notice it until the pitch went down instead of up...! Then = I had to re string the affected parts. 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. Can't get this "prytool" in UK Regarding the becket - just take a pair of pliers when you let the = tension down and squeeze them puppies.=20 I use a pair of long duck-billed - it "gets in there!"=20 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 Regards Michael G (UK) ------=_NextPart_001_00E1_01C3A330.EA3B0500 An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/bc/d5/f9/22/attachment.htm ------=_NextPart_001_00E1_01C3A330.EA3B0500-- ---------------------- 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/0a/98/44/33/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/9e/94/8c/19/attachment.jpe ---------------------- multipart/related attachment--
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