feasable voicing tool modification??

[Nichols]

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PianoTek has a nice little upright voicing tool. Sometimes for extra hard 
vertical hammers I find it's easier to use one needle from the sides.

Guy


At 12:54 PM 7/22/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>              I got a really good idea!  I have done about 5 hammer 
> carding & needling jobs for customers who own old, old uprights and I 
> take the actions home to card and do basic deeep shoulder needling.
>
>               However, when I return the action  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.
>
>                The great idea is to dismantle the voicing tool, saw off 
> the 1" or so handle insert thereby having just the needle (cartridge?) 
> head in hand so that I can work quickly with the upright action in place. 
> Is this a good idea?
>
>Julia Gottchall,
>Reading, PA

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