FW: grooved capo on Baldwin L

[Susan Kline]

>
>From: "Deitra Tonyan" <d_tonyan@hotmail.com>
>To: <ptj@ptg.org>
>Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 2:18 AM
>Subject: grooved capo on Baldwin L
>
>
>  My client has a Baldwin L ('79) with a grooved capo that is producing more
>  vibrato than Cecilia Bartoli.
>  If I roll the wire over each edge of the groove and then back to center,
>the false beat all-but disappears.

Does this piano have a "normal" capo bar, or is it a termination piece,
with the little channels for the strings of each note?

I wrote an article about how I worked on zings and noises from a termination
piece on an SD-10. (PT Journal, June 2000, page 25.) I have no idea if
my method was efficient or not, but it did seem to work.

Have you considered just wedging the wire from side to side, as
you describe, instead of detensioning, etc.? You might get improvement
for almost as long as reshaping would give you ... or maybe not.
The detensioning also leaves you with the contact points at slightly
different places on the wire than where they were before, which I
believe has a good effect on the tone.

Good luck,

Susan Kline