Bill I replaced the rubber bumper with a wood music desk pull. (I drilled out the hole to accommodate the rod). That way I can push down on the rod to message the string, with the desk pull in the palm of my hand, and not get "stabbed". 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: William Monroe <bill at a440piano.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 3:47 am Subject: Re: [pianotech] string hook HI Allan, Like this? Yes, the rubber bumper can be placed on top of the agraffes, or any other place you like, and then you can hook strings and use the leverage to lift them. As with any process, caution is used, the leverage is quite good, and it makes levelling strings easy. Just be careful not to overdo........ Then, the end has a groove filed in it for seating - if you decide to do that. William R. Monroe On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Allan <allan at sutton.net> wrote: 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 [Image Removed] [Image Removed] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090612/b8ff8ac4/attachment.htm>
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