[pianotech] string hook

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Hi, Allan:
    I don't know of a Hart string hook, but he has a spring hook that is very handy for manipulating various springs.  Not used for string leveling.  Joe Goss has a string leveling tool that works as you describe- the wire does the connection to the string (hooked on the end) and the bar is the leverage.  His tool is handy in that it folds compactly.  I have one.  It's not in my hand just now, but I believe there's one end that will massage a string, as there's a groove filed into it.  It sounds like Kent Webb has a similar tool.  These string leveling tools are very efficient because of the leverage against an agraffe.  In fact, you could make one yourself with a dowel and short length of large gauge wire.
    Using the common string hook with a T handle also works, but there's no leverage there, just using your strength to pull upwards.  I have a hook from Don Mannino that has a unique end on it.  His tool doesn't have the usual "J" shape, but has a slot that the string fits into for lifting.  It also has a groove for pushing or massaging the string downwards.  The handle is a T type.  I'm not sure who sells the Mannino string tool.  
    I hope this helps.
    Paul McCloud
    San Diego


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Allan 
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: 06/12/2009 4:09:39 AM 
Subject: [pianotech] string hook


 
Used for levelling the strings, what is the Hart string hook ? Joe Goss uses that term on his article about string levelling on his mother goose web site. For lifting as well as lowering?
 
At the Postdam one-day seminar last month, Kent Webb had a tool that was a long brass bar with a long wire hanging by its side. He used it to “massage” the string to settle on the bridge, but it was not the main use of this tool. Does any of this ring a bell? Could it be a string leveller? The hook would be on the long wire, the bar would be the [cantilever, lever, I don’t know the word] to [take support?] or for [counter-bracing]?
 
I wish I could explain this better. Sorry.
 
Thank you                    
 
Allan Sutton
www.pianotechniquemontreal.com



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