Assessing bearing on Ivers and Pond 1904 upright. Advice sought.

[pianotune05]

Hi everyone,
I wanted to thank everyone for their help thus far.  I didn't respond 
earlier because we're still having trouble with our comcast.

I am curious as to why some are so particular about felting verses cracking 
the unisons.  Among this and other items, I feel as if my newness to the 
trade equates itself to newness as in just picking up the tuning lever for 
the first time.  From what I"ve been told so far, I'm doing quite well in 
the tuning aspects and of course I have to learn other aspects, but I do 
have an understanding of tuning thus far.  As for partials, I quite 
interested in them.  My lack of scientific inclination shouldn't equal lack 
of knowledge in tuning.  Why would I have my first paid tuning if I were 
just truly a newbe" at this.  I beleive I'm past the green stage of tuning, 
but of course I know I haven't arived yet as everyone else has.  This 
response came from a p rivate post I received earlier about felts and 
cracking unisons, not intended to lash at anyone, just state my mind and 
where I am with tuning etc.
Marshall
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: Assessing bearing on Ivers and Pond 1904 upright. Advice 
sought.


> Measure front and rear downbearing in several places in every section of 
> the scale - especially in the killer octave area. Measure crown between 
> all ribs. Play the piano - how does it sound? Is there a bad killer octave 
> area? What do other areas of the scale sound like?
>
> IMHO, if you have no audible killer octave area and good overall 
> soundboard function and reasonable downbearing and crown everywhere, you 
> might have good results with the original soundboard. If you have an 
> audible killer octave area or other bad areas and no crown and no 
> downbearing, you are pretty much guaranteed you need a new board. If it 
> sounds good, but you are lacking downbearing and/or crown, it's going to 
> be a crap shoot if you don't replace the board.
>
> And if you need any recommendations on where to go to get the soundboard 
> replaced, I could probably give you a name.....
>
> Terry Farrell
> Farrell Piano
> www.farrellpiano.com
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "gordon stelter"
>
>
>> I'm getting ready to dissassemble a magnificent,
>> massive
>> Ivers and Pond "artcase" upright with mandolin rail,
>> soft pedal compensating WN&G action, etc..  Besides
>> checking "that there is some", what guidleines for
>> checking the bearing on this thing, strung and up to
>> pitch, are there, before I break it down and lose all
>> this available data ? In other words: how much should
>> I look for, and what is the best method of measuring
>> it?
>>
>>    Thanks!
>>     G
>
>
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