spoon bender won't fit!

[Isaac Sadigursky]

GOOD DESCRIPTION.. THIS METHOD WAS INTRODUCED BY LATE ERNIE JUHN AND I HAD
USED HIS TECHNICS SINCE.. IT WOYKS!!NEVER USED SPOON BENDERS SINCE.. GOOD
LUCK!! ISAAC SADIGURSKY.. A NEWCOMER TO PIANOTECK


> [Original Message]
> From: Conrad Hoffsommer <hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu>
> To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Date: 11/16/04 9:52:48 AM
> Subject: Re: spoon bender won't fit!
>
> At 12:15 11/16/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> >Greetings,
> >
> >            Is there any other way to adjust/calibrate spoons? I have a 
> > Reinhard & Co. studio upright ca. 1900+ and the spoon bending tool will 
> > not fit.
> >
> >            I can get the tool slid between the wippens okay, but when I 
> > go to turn the tool sideways in order to get the neck of the spoon in
the 
> > tool head, I cannot. If I would turn the tool by force the wippen
flange 
> > to the adjacent note would crack. it is so tight in there, no room. Can 
> > this job be done outside the piano?
> >
> >            What to do? Any suggestions would be helpful.
> >
> >Julia Gottchall,
> >Reading, PA
>
>
> Measure hammer blow.
>
> Move the hammer rail forward until the hammers are halfway to the 
> strings.  Wedge the hammer rail in place. Tie wedge/rail/action bracket 
> together.
>
> Actuate damper pedal rod until the dampers just start to move.   If you
can 
> get a wedge in there that will help.  Tie damper rod in place.
>
> Remove action and  put  in a cradle/stand.
>
> Lift a wippen up until the jack touches the hammerbutt.   Since the
hammers 
> are held at the point where the dampers should start lifting and the 
> dampers are held where they are when they are contacting the strings, you 
> can adjust the spoons to just move the dampers when the jack hits the
butt.
>
> Try a sample or three,  adjust wedges as necessary to get the lift you
need.
>
> This indirect method isn't as accurate as doing it in the piano, but  if 
> you can't reach the spoons, you can't reach the spoons.
>
>
>
>
> Conrad Hoffsommer - Keyboard Technician
> Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045
> Vox-(563)-387-1204 // Fax (563)-387-1076
>
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>
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