[pianotech] Damper upstop rail missing

[Tom Servinsky]

And need I remind everyone that the word "dag" actually is defined as the fecal material matted in the sheep's wool. Go figure how that term transformed into a lubricant.
Tom Servinsky
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ed Foote 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 6:31 AM
  Subject: Re: [pianotech] Damper upstop rail missing


  Greetings, 


  JD writes:  
  >Since when is "upstop rail" a correct term?! 
   
    
    What do we mean by "correct"?  Steinways have flies and monkeys, while their groove is a grub. The action hold-downs have been fighting like dags and cleats for years there at the back of the action, and most bellymen know what a hockey stick is. The pad we used in French polishing was no more than a fad.  I'm not sure there is an ultimate authority on nomenclature in the piano field. No government rule to tell us what something is properly called. Alas, we are left to devise our own devices.  
      So, given that the dead horse has received whippens and wippens enough, I would submit that the wood and felt contrivance that limits the upward motion of the underlevers is so universally understood to be an upstop rail, that if needing to correctly identify it, the overwhelming majority of technicians would do so by calling it by same. However, the correct term is context dependent, i.e.  when discovered upon the bench, immediately after the final hour of damper regulation, this #@!*%#!  is called everything but upstop rail.  
  Regards, 
  Ed Foote RPT
    

    
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