Alan The Hart spring hook should not be used on strings. It should only be used on springs, like the butterfly springs on wippens, hammer return springs or damper springs. The tip is very precise and not strong enough to lift or message a string. Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician Mililani, Oahu, HI 808-349-2943 Author of: The Business of Piano Tuning available from Potter Press www.pianotuning.com -----Original Message----- From: Allan <allan at sutton.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 4:51 pm 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 No virus found in this incoming me ssage. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.339 / Virus Database: 270.12.63/2169 - Release Date: 06/11/09 05:53:00 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090612/837d2135/attachment.htm>
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