"Loss of Tone" Complaint

[Ron Nossaman]

>    Terry, picture this; You take the action out, then you depress the
>pedal,,,,,,,, Huh?
>    You might want to re-read the posting.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 7:01 PM
>Subject: Re: "Loss of Tone" Complaint
>
>
>> This was to clean the underside of the string at the damper. Removing the
>> action provides access to the string underside, and lifting the dampers by
>> depressing the pedal gets the dampers up off the strings so that you can
>> scrub them. If you do that with the dampers lowered at resting position,
>you
>> will chew up the dampers - especially the wedges that extend down below
>the
>> bottom of the string.
>>
>> Terry Farrell

Oh no! It's OK, because the same string under the same damper, only on the
back side where you can't easily reach it, doesn't get funky and therefore
doesn't need cleaning - somehow. I don't see why the string under the front
of the damper shouldn't be extended the same courtesy. I mean, as long as
the "suspension of  disbelief" convention is in effect, shouldn't we at
least make a minimal attempt to be consistent?


Ron N