feasible voicing tool modification??

Avery Todd avery@ev1.net
Fri, 23 Jul 2004 14:58:05 -0500


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Julia,

This came up on the CAUT list today. Might be worth looking into. A company in
Canada, I believe.


http://www.pianofortesupply.com/tools3.html

Avery

At 09:01 AM 7/23/04, you wrote:
>There's a four needle voicing tool with a rotating head, twist to 
>tighten.  It's very convenient for uprights.
>Andrew
>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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