Convention hints?

[Joe & Penny Goss]

Hi Richard,
String level is not the only cause but one of many sources of unwanted noise
in the tone generated by two or more strings,
The noises, as you know, can come from loose bridge pins, waste string
segments, loose ribs foreign objects in and arround the piano, untraveled
hammers etc.
My objective in using the string level is to eliminate one possible source
and at the same time make voicing easier.
Since my sense of touch is not very good and my eyes and ear is the level is
useful to me in getting the strings in the same plane so that when the
hammer is traveled, and the strike point level to all thr strings of that
unison, I do not get the out of phase sound that I am speaking of.
In shaping the hammers I use a tool that can be used on both uprights and
grands. I also use strips of sand paper attached to paddles to gang file the
hammers shoe shine style using 80,  120,  then 320 grit for final polishing
of the hammer.
With the hammers level,  traveled, and pin centers ok  the strings leveled
voicing is much easier
. I hope others will jump in and fill in information where clarification
needs to be made
Joe Goss
Mother Goose
.

----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Moody <remoody@midstatesd.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 9:07 PM
Subject: Re: Convention hints?


> > 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
> >
> >
>
>