feasible voicing tool modification??

[ryan sowers]

Regarding the Yamaha style upright voicing tool:

It has places for three needles but I have found 1
needle more practical. 


--- Corte Swearingen <cswearingen@daigger.com> wrote:
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> Julia,
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> I have the Yamaha tool but have found it almost
> impossible to use on my own
> Yamaha because the hammers are so hard.  The tool
> was designed to do just
> what you want - to voice upright hammers with having
> to unscrew and/or
> remove the action.  Hats off to anyone that actually
> has the finger
> strength to use this tool with the action in place. 
> It must have been
> designed with the thought of using it for very minor
> touch up voicing and
> evening out a few hammers once traditional voicing
> has been completed.
> 
> Corte Swearingen
> Chicago
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> Hi Julia,
> 
> There is (or was) a small yamaha tool designed for
> just this purpose--so I
> guess you have Yamaha's blessings.
> 
> Take it easy on "out of the piano voicing".
> 
> At 12:54 PM 22/07/2004 EDT, you wrote:
> >Greetings,
> >
> >             & needling jobs for customers who own
> old, old uprights and I
> >take the actions home to card and do basic deeep
> shoulder needling.
> >
> >               to the piano, I find I need to
> custom or individually
> needle
> >the hammers to tonally match/blend the octaves, or
> rather, make the side
> by
> >side notes sound homogonous/alike next to one
> another, blending the
> sections.
> >
> >               With the action in place, when I
> attemp this, my voicing
> >tool's handle gets in the way and is too big to use
> in the small space
> >between the hammers and the strings. I don't like
> the idea of swinging the
> >action back and forth to needle, listen, needle,
> listen...etc.
> >
> >
> >
> > Julia Gottchall,
> > Reading, PA
> 
> Regards,
> Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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Ryan Sowers, RPT  Puget Sound Chapter
Pianova Piano Service
Olympia, WA


		
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