[pianotech] V-Bar Dilemma

Jon Page jonpage at comcast.net
Wed Mar 11 16:53:06 PDT 2009


>You may be interested in building one of these
>hardened tool-steel capo bars...
>... I'll include two quality mp3 sound files of a piano
>with hardened capo and front duplex bars,...

A nice sounding piano Ron, and an exemplary tuning as well. Kudos on both.

I was hoping for the bullet magique which would simply replace to 
defective bars.
Now I'm toying with the idea of peeling back the bass strings, 
replacing the treble
wire and installing vertical hitch pins. Lowering the plate a tad 
would be in order too.
the pins will have to come out to remove the plate to unscreew the 
block to plane
the bottom a bit.  Oh botheration !

I thought I had this beaten into submission by working over the 
action. Here's C1:
Originally, the Touchweight was:        24/64         SW 13.3
Tapering/arcing the hammers:           20/48         SW 11.9
Moving stack back 1.5 mm:                22/46


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Regards,

Jon Page
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