[pianotech] string hook

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Hi, Allan:
    I like making tools if I can.  It doesn't have to be fancy, and you can make one with just a wire and a piece of dowel.  Make a few bends in the wire, drill two holes and you're done.  Experiment with various lengths.  See what works best.  Or you can just buy one from Joe or whoever makes them.  I've never seen the one with the rubber button.  Part of the fun of piano work is coming up with a tool of your own, or modifying one you bought and make it better.  You might even come up with a better design on your own.  I've always thought of somehow using some kind of dedicated plier to do this job.  Maybe someday...
    My  too scents.

    Paul McCloud
    San Di-eggo


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Allan 
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: 06/12/2009 10:16:40 PM 
Subject: Re: [pianotech] string hook


Thank you Paul and William. The tool in the pictures is different from the tool sold by Mother Goose, which doesn’t show a rubber “foot”. Is it available for sale somewhere or should I just try to make one? 
 
Allan Sutton
www.pianotechniquemontreal.com



From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of William Monroe
Sent: 12 juin 2009 09:48
To: pianotech at ptg.org
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 
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.
 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?
Thank you                    
Allan Sutton
 
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