Fw: v-bar/capo repair (& bridges)

[Barbara Richmond]

Hi Ed,

Thanks for the offer, I've bought the kit.  Heck, it was time I had one
anyway and I may even end up using them.  ;-)   Besides reading the article,
I saw them when they were first available on a piano over at University of
Illinois, where the techs were trying them out.  I wasn't real impressed
with the sound on that particular piano, but then, this will be a different
application, too.  I'm also interested in using them on the wound
tri-chords on a Steinway D that I service.

This is the strongest duplex noise I've ever had to deal with; I've had
to mute the duplex <and> voice substantially to kill it.  Definitely not a
case of little drops of glue on the strings doing the trick.  Anyway, I just
want to be prepared as well as I can be for <whatever>.  Since the customer
wasn't so pleased that the felt had to go in, I was thinking a small bar of
brass half round or half oval might be a little more aesthetically pleasing
than the couplers. Yeah, I know, but I try to please my customers....

This has all been most interesting and I've certainly learned some new
things.  Thanks everyone.

Barbara Richmond, RPT

----- Original Message ----- 
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Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: v-bar/capo repair (& bridges)


> Barbara-
>
> Of everything proposed, putting Pitch Lock couplers on the front duplex is
> the simplest, fastest, easiest and easiest to reverse.  If they work, they
> work, if not, it cost you 5 minutes, and no harm done to the piano.
> Pictures were posted in the Journal a year or two ago.
>
> If you don't have any, e-mail me and I'll send you a few.
>
> Ed Sutton
>