Richard, For years I listened to trash comming out of unisons that I could do nothing abour. Then In a class taught by Rick Baldassin at a PNW conference as an aside he said "do you think that anything should be done with this note" and played a note in the upper treble. There was the same noise thst had assulted my ear so often. All there agreed yes, (this was not a voicing class ) and he proceded to pull out of his tuning kit this small brass level that he had been given at the Fazioli factory. He then used the level to check the strings and since he already knew that the string was unlevel allowed us to watch as he used the level and with a string lifter massaged the strings into a level. Oh yes the hammer was preleveled and then the string changed for this demonstration. And what do you know GONE was the sound that I had grown to hate. Immediatly upon arriving home I made my first attempt to make a string level. We are now making our fourth and perhaps best model that incloses the vial within the tool made of brass. We hope to have it available in a few weeks and an updated page at the same time. Save this page for furure update on tools available http://www.primrnrt.com/~imatunr/ Joe Goss Mother Goose ----- I have never leveled piano strings let alone brass strings. I was never > taught leveling, execpt to change defective agraffes and I have not seen any > that were that drastic. ---ric
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