Bridle Tape function - was Two Different Worlds

[John Ross]

Why would replacing bridle tapes, be a job for the shop?
Or don't you believe in the cork ones?
What do you do, when you replace the tapes in the shop?
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregor _" <karlkaputt at hotmail.com>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 5:26 AM
Subject: Re: Bridle Tape function - was Two Different Worlds


> >From: "Alan R. Barnard"
>>
>>It's (relatively) easy. You just take out the keys, install the action, 
>>reinstall the keys while tripping each jack. And charge a little more.
>>
>
> Why to trouble so much? Just install the action "half": attach it loosely 
> to the bottom holders and incline it in the direction of the strings with 
> one hand. In the other hand hold a srewdriver or whatever to tripp the 
> jacks. Usually there are only a few bridle tapes broken, not the whole 
> set. If there are only a few broken, the procedure takes 30 seconds or so 
> additional time. If the whole set is rotten it´s a job for the shop. Do 
> you mean with bridle tape the whole tape or just the end of leather? To 
> exchange a handfull of leather endings in field service is done so quickly 
> that I don´t charge extra for it, depending of the customers sympathy or 
> the quality (temperature) of the coffee he offered me.
>
> Gregor
>
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