feasable voicing tool modification??

[ryan sowers]

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You have to make them yourself from a pair of mid
sized needle nose vice-grips. Bill Spurlock had a
handout on how to make these. Call him up and buy some
of his cool stuff and he will probably send you the
instructions.

--- Andrew & Rebeca Anderson <anrebe@zianet.com>
wrote:
> 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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Ryan Sowers, RPT  Puget Sound Chapter
Pianova Piano Service
Olympia, WA


		
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