String massage

[Joe & Penny Goss]

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Hi Terry, The tool that I make is 11" long and will reach through the =
dampers to seat most uprights in the treble.=20
To do the tenor and bass one must remove the knee board.
The tool has a straight and a bent end for doing grands ( the treble =
from below with action removed ) and can be used in the combination =
handle.
Any one can make one but mine are ready to go <G> check below.
Joe Goss
imatunr@primenet.com
http://www.primenet.com/~imatunr/

  ----- Original Message -----=20
  From: Farrell=20
  To: pianotech@ptg.org=20
  Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 7:56 PM
  Subject: Re: String massage


  I had been thinking about dropping a post on this for some time. Sandy =
Whetherholt, RPT from our Southwest Florida chapter did a technical =
recently on just such a device. I have been using it with great sucess =
since then. It is just a brass rod with a little slot in the end that I =
stick into my combination handle.

  I only use it on grands, because of the more difficult access to =
strings on the vertical. When the grand is only a bit flat, perhaps 10 =
to 15 cents flat, I massage or push down all plain wire strings. I don't =
do the bass - doesn't seem to matter there. It makes more difference in =
the upper treble. One is trying to raise the pitch of the backscale to =
the target string tension. When you pull a string up to pitch and hit it =
several times with the hammer (piano hammer, that is!), and it keeps =
going flat, it is likely that the backscale tension is less than the =
speaking length string tension. By pressing down on the speaking length, =


  String stretching tool

  Terry Farrell
  Piano Tuning & Service
  Tampa, Florida
  mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
    ----- Original Message -----=20
    From: Ola Andersson=20
    To: pianotech@ptg.org=20
    Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 5:24 PM
    Subject: String massage


    Hi gang!
    =20
    I got a reply from Ruud Billenkamp some months ago and now I'm going =
to pitch raise and tune one of those Rippens
    =20
    I made myself a string voicing tool of a brass rod that I can put =
into my regulatingscrewdriver.

    Can it help me to stabilise the pressure of the speaking and =
nonspeaking areas if I massage the string? Espessially in the last one =
and a half octave. Will it save me time and give me a more stabile =
result? I've tried it and noticed the string reacts alot to it.

    Do anybody have thougts about this?
    What part of the string do I start with and how much massage is =
needed?
    I've tried to use the archives but it want work today.
    I also seen this done by Jim Coleman on a Video but he used it for =
setting the string.


    Many Thanks=20
    =20
    Ola Andersson


    The Reply was
    >
    >> I had to pitch raise and tune a Rippen today!
    >> My question is:
    >> Because of the  long "non speaking" area of the string next to =
the pins.
    >>(Sorry for my bad explaination but I'm exhausted) you know what I =
mean. How
    >>is the best way of doing this on a Rippen (pitchraise + tune)? I =
suppose you
    >>done some?

    >My way, could be, pitch raise first, gentle of course, then press =
down? and
    >strike all the wire from the hitchpins to the tuningpins to loose =
all the
    >rusty points where the wire sticks to the pins and=20
    >Then press the sustain and BANGG all the keys to equal all the
    >tensionpartials.
    >Well I could do it this way i think.

    Rudyard,




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