feasable voicing tool modification??

[Andrew & Rebeca Anderson]

Who sells these?  I could use one for a Yamaha with quarried hammers.  ;-)

Andrew
At 12:38 PM 7/23/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>Squeezing the hammers with a pair of 5wr vice-grips
>modeled after Bill Spurlocks is a very helpfull tool
>in voicing uprights (and grands).
>--- Dave Nereson <davner@kaosol.net> wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <Alpha88x@aol.com>
> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 10:54 AM
> > Subject: feasable voicing tool modification??
> >
> >
> > > 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
> > >
> >
> >     Yeah, the Yamaha tool is OK, but not great.  As
> > Corte S. said, it's more
> > for touch-up voicing and surface "sugar coating"
> > since Yamaha hammers are
> > usually too hard to be able to get a needle in very
> > far, never mind three of
> > them.  I just have one needle in mine and use it to
> > poke right into the
> > string grooves.  And my knuckles get scraped a lot.
> > But there's nothing
> > else out there designed for upright hammers that I
> > know of, except the
> > voicing tool with the pivoting head -- but it
> > doesn't pivot enough.
> >     Been trying side voicing lately -- see last
> > month's Journal, I believe.
> >     What I end up doing a lot is taking the action
> > out, laying it on the
> > carpet, putting a block of wood under the hammer
> > tails, and stabbing with my
> > big (Yamaha) voicing tool.  Then put it back in and
> > see how much effect it
> > had.  Repeat. Listen. Maybe repeat again, or go to
> > the smaller tool for
> > touch-up, or use ViseGrips, but ya gotta be real
> > careful with those-- it's
> > easy to go too far.  It's awkward, working down on
> > the floor on your knees,
> > but I don't know a better way, unless you bring a
> > long a portable folding
> > table or something ...
> >     --David Nereson, RPT
> >
> >
> >
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>
>=====
>Ryan Sowers, RPT  Puget Sound Chapter
>Pianova Piano Service
>Olympia, WA
>
>
>
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