In an emergency a business card between the case and bass side of the keyframe will do a little magic in even less time. Obviously a temporary fix and the hammers should be centered on the unison. David Ilvedson Date sent: Sat, 22 May 1999 00:39:37 -0500 (CDT) To: pianotech@ptg.org From: Ron Nossaman <nossaman@southwind.net> Subject: Re: "I" Bridge Send reply to: pianotech@ptg.org > > >I use a vegetable cleaning brush with bristles. Does your > > voicing scrubber have bristles? > > > >David Ilvedson > > > > Yep, brass. It cleans the crud out of the string cuts and raises the "nap" > of the felt enough to eliminate a lot of the high painful partials. Raises a > heck of a dust cloud in use, but it's about the cheapest magic I know, and > the best $.69 I ever spent. You can make over $200 an hour for about five > minutes brushing a set of hammers, and make $150 worth of difference in the > sound for a few bucks worth of your time. A real crowd pleaser. A suede > brush works very well too, but this old scrubber has a long handle so I > don't take knuckles off (mine) on the pressure bar screws in verticals. I > have no idea if they are still available, or what they cost by now. > > Ron > > David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA ilvey@jps.net
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