Alan, Could you cut a slit to the center hole of the punchings and slip them around the front rail pins? Dale -----Original Message----- From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of reggaepass at aol.com Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 6:01 PM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] disabling individual notes Jeff, Removing the hammer assemblies was my first thought, as that would be very quick and would surely disable the notes in question. (It would definitely be much faster than pulling the stack to add to the front rail pile, although for $100/hr I will gladly do it!) Problem was that the keys sagged in front without sufficient weight present over the capstan, and the pianist found that unacceptable. Any particular reason you would use cardboard punchings instead of cloth? Thanks, Alan -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Tanner <jtanner at mozart.sc.edu> To: College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org> Sent: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 2:34 pm Subject: Re: [CAUT] disabling individual noes On Aug 15, 2007, at 4:46 PM, reggaepass at aol.com wrote: Greetings List(s), Someone is paying me handsomely to realize their own tuning system for a couple of performances this weekend. As a safety precaution, he would like to have the notes that he doesn't actually play (all of the Cs and Ebs, in this case) disabled. The best idea I have come up with so far is to add another front rail cloth punching on top of the one that is already there for these keys, so the keys will barely depress. Is there a better/easier way? I would probably opt for a stack of thick card punchings rather than cloth, but that was just what I thought of first. Seems like removing the hammers/shanks would be a little less trouble than pulling the stack and shimming each key front, but either way would do accomplish what you're wanting to do. Jeff Thanks, Alan Eder_____________________________________________________________________ ___AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. Jeff Tanner, RPTUniversity of South Carolina = ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. =0
This PTG archive page provided courtesy of Moy Piano Service, LLC