Convention hints?

[Richard Moody]

> For years I listened to trash comming out of unisons that I could do
nothing
> about...........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.



As with every skill I have been honored to be taught, I would be grateful
learn about this also.     Richard Moody




> 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
>
>