[pianotech] New stuff at the convention?

[Ron Berry]

Look at www.ptg.org/blog/
I have some pictures of the Steingraeber and Scott Jones stuff. Also David
stanwood had an interesting invention. The post are called Invention at the
convention and may have scrolled off a page or two buy now.



On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Ron Koval <drwoodwind at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  I must have reached some kind of new threshold at the conference in Grand
> Rapids; I looked around at all the new tools and didn't feel like I needed
> to buy one.... Strange.
>
> A couple of new things did catch my eye - There was more there, but these
> two were memorable for me:
>
> From Scott Jones, the inventer of the pitch lock clips, the TouchRail for
> lightening heavy actions. Essentially a new custom rail to replace the key
> upstop rail. A small spring for each key can be used to individually adjust
> the touch. I bought an octave section to be used in for demonstration.
> http://pitchlock.com/pages/primary_pages/touchrail.html
> I hope to be trying this out soon!
>
> From Steven James, the grand piano muffler. This one seems to work really
> well! Simple installation requires pulling the dampers out and installing
> onto the damper rail. On/off requires sliding three little levers, one for
> each section.
> http://www.grandpianomuffler.com/Site/Grand_Piano_Muffler.html
>
> What did you see in Grand Rapids that caught your eye?
>
> Ron Koval
> chicagoland
>
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