I've tried the solder but it was very difficult to get the solder to stick to the rod. It tends to come off. Using wire is much easier, and gives you a quick way to make pitch changes by moving it up and down the rod. On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Mike Kurta <mkurta1 at charter.net> wrote: > You can also change the pitch of individual bars by heating and > applying solder to the end of a rod, then carefully file off the solder > until the proper pitch is achieved. It does sound like a Schoenhut system, > and they will sell you the correct set of tone bars. They're not expensive > and will save you a lot of work. They will need tuning however. > Mike Kurta > -- Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Olympia, WA www.pianova.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100815/6342eb7d/attachment.htm>
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