Remedial string leveling

[Andrew and Rebeca Anderson]

Avery,
Piano Tek sells them, essentially a lever with a nylon tip that is 
mounted on a wooden base that can slide on the key-bed.  You check 
the tip for level and augment the base with punchings and tape if 
necessary and then lift the strings from underneath.  Quite helpful 
for lifting the front duplex.  Eliminates a lot of noise.  I also tap 
down just back of the front bearing.
Not too good around the agraffes, particularly if substandard.  You 
might want to leave the curve in the apostrophe's wire if it leaves 
you closer to level.
I've decided to use it only at the capos where I was satisfied with 
what it accomplished.  Much faster than trying to hook each 
one.  When I checked level at the agraffes and then had a hard time 
getting them close I decided to strictly use a hook only there.  Some 
of those higher strings might not get anything.

Andrew

At 01:35 PM 10/20/2005, you wrote:
>Andrew,
>
>What is "strate-mate"?
>
>Avery
>At 07:01 PM 10/19/05, you wrote:
>>Ric, Barbara,
>>I was wondering about this too.  I routinely lift the strings with 
>>the strate-mate on both sides of the capo.
>
>
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