[CAUT] Cross papering

[Porritt, David]

With Steinway's "rosette" design in the flange and matching shape of the
flange rail, there's a limit to how far you can turn the flange to align
the hammer to the strings.  If they need to go further than you can turn
the flange you can put a paper in the back-left and right-front corners
to force the flange farther left or it will go right with papers in the
right-back and left-front corners.  It's kind of an awkward way to
overcome the "advantage" of the Steinway-shaped flanges.

 

dp

 

David M. Porritt

dporritt at smu.edu

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From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
Geoffrey Pollard
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 7:22 AM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: [CAUT] Cross papering

 

Hello David,

Could you explain "cross papering" of flanges?

Thanks,
Geoff Pollard
Sydney Conservatorium of Music


-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org on behalf of Porritt, David
Sent: Wed 1/3/2007 7:19 AM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Parts

Alan:

I'm pretty much a Renner guy.  What part of "design" are you referring
to?  If you mean the non-flat rail it's not my favorite part of S&S.  If
the world were a perfect place I'm sure that design would hold the parts
securely. Since we have to radically change the design by using
traveling paper, and/or cross paper flanges to get the hammer aimed in
the right direction the design becomes an impediment rather than a help.

dp

David M. Porritt
dporritt at smu.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
Alan McCoy
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 1:26 PM
To: College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>
Subject: [CAUT] Parts

Hi Folks and Happy New Year to all,

When you buy your next action parts - shanks, flanges, backchecks and
wippens - which manufacturer are you going to choose? And why?

Abel?
Tokiwa?
Renner?
Steinway?

I am currently working on a S&S M replacing S&F only and using Abel
parts.
Not finished with the job yet, but so far I like the parts.

Pinning consistent at around 3g.
Shank radius weight mostly at 5g, with a dozen at 4g and another dozen
at
6g.
Knuckle line is good. (Though I had to do a lot of flange papering to
compensate for the S&S rail design. I can't see much advantage to this
design. What am I missing?)

Thanks for your thoughts and experience.

Alan


-- Alan McCoy, RPT
Eastern Washington University
amccoy at mail.ewu.edu
509-359-4627







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