Rob, At 01:46 PM 9/25/1998 -0700, you wrote: >Ahhh yes, I see it in the catalogue now. Boy that was kind of a dumb >design. Did any other company use these? In the thousands of pianos I've >worked on I don't recall seeing them in any other pianos except S&S. >Perhaps I've just been lucky! I respectfully demurr, again. The earlier versions of the tool are really quite elegant. It seems to be only in the later "Hale", even cheaper, imitations, that the molds for the castings have become so distorted that the thing not only looks ugly, but is dysfunctional as well. One remedy is to use your imagination, and your handy grinder, to restore a smaller, more elegant profile, particularly around the business ends, and their adjacent necks. Depending on how bad the casting is, you will wind up removing a fair percentage of the mass of the tool (maybe 10%, or more). As to the design being dumb - Which is more dumb - Having a capstan regulating systems which allows you to do it completely by feel, note to note and section to section? Or, one which guarantees having to work at uncomfortable angles just so that you can see all that you must see to do the job? Idle thoughts of a clearly misinformed mind. Best. Horace Horace Greeley, CNA, MCP, RPT Systems Analyst/Engineer Controller's Office Stanford University email: hgreeley@leland.stanford.edu voice mail: 650.725.9062 fax: 650.725.8014
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