[CAUT] upright plucking

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Hi Wim,
Good for you,
Uprights only need to be mated thank goodness.
I have done one upright though, a 60's Kimball studio.
Made it sound a whole lot better, but still not worth the effort. <O:((
The seating of the strings on the various termination points probibly
was what made the difference, not the leveling.
I always check the first few tenor strings for mating as the tension on them
is much lower, and the mismating shows up as a tuning problem more. I push
in the high string to mate with the string that is open.
If that does not work my mating block is used.
Joe Goss RPT
Mother Goose Tools
imatunr at srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willem Blees" <wblees at bama.ua.edu>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 2:13 PM
Subject: [CAUT] upright plucking


> Speaking of phing..pck..pluug, I have never seen any discussion on
> this list about mating upright hammers, much less vocing them. I just
> did one of the practice room uprights, and thought I would give it a
> try. I shaped the hammers, and I thought they looked pretty good. But
> just for the heck of it, I tried plucking strings. I gently pushed the
> hammer up to the string, stepped on the damer pedal, and sure enough,
> on about a dozen or so notes, I could hear one of the strings ringing.
> In the upper treble, where there isn't enough room to pluck above the
> hammer, I used a thin screw driver to gently rake accross the strings.
> It didn't take too much sanding to straighten the striking surface
> out, and I tried to get down under the hammer as muchas possible to
> try to keep a round head.
>
> Comments
>
> Wim
>
> Willem Blees, RPT
> Piano Tuner/Technician
> School of Music
> University of Alabama
> Tuscaloosa, AL USA
>