Beginner Student and String Breakage

[antares]

alright alright!

Contact Jan Grossbach from Europiano magazine. he should know where the
German techs get their strings (Seiten)

and now they want the e-mail address....... sheeesssh grgrll

OK, found it :

Jan.Grossbach@t-online.de

And what do I get out of this? heh?

(;>))


friendly greetings
from

Antares,

Amsterdam, Holland

"where music is, no harm can be"

visit my website at :  http://www.concertpianoservice.nl/


> From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
> Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 09:17:40 -0500
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Subject: Re: Beginner Student and String Breakage
> 
> Hello Laura. I'll take a stab at a few of your questions. I did the Potter
> course about four years ago and think that it is a very good, very complete
> course of instruction. Comments below:
> 
> Terry Farrell
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Van Der Rhoer" <laurav1@mac.com>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 5:14 AM
> Subject: Beginner Student and String Breakage
> 
> 
>> Thank you all for your helpful suggestions and encouragement!  I will try to
>> learn as soon as possible how to replace strings (though I may have to send
>> to the U.S. for wire, not knowing who to contact here in Germany).
> 
> Hey Antares (Netherlands)! Hey Richard (Sweden)! Anyone else out there in
> Europe have contact info for a local supply house????
> 
>> Possibly I was on the wrong pin, but I think not, as I was being pretty
>> careful checking each time.  But I will watch that all the more carefully in
>> future!
> 
> It's embarrassing for me to think about how many times I put the tuning lever
> on the wrong pin. I'll be tuning along just fine and then the customer asks me
> if I wish for a soda or coffee - I go back to tuning and for some reason, I
> turn the pin and the pitch does not change - if I don't wake up immediately
> and turn some more - SNAP!!!! It's frighteningly easy to do!
> 
>> Thank you Greg Newell for your tip to use a lubricant -- would McCall's VJ
>> Lube do?  It came with the course.
> 
> No! That heavy stuff is for squeaky trapwork and the like.
> 
>> Otherwise I will order Protek's Center
>> Pin Lubricant as you mentioned.  Is it applied with a small paint brush or
>> something else?
> 
> Protek is good to use there. Protek is a liquid of low viscosity. It is (as I
> understand it) teflon suspended in some type of carrier. Apply it and it soaks
> into just about anything. The carrier (liquid part) flashes off quite quickly
> and leaves a bit of teflon dispersed about. And that causes the area to be
> slippery for quite some time. I put mine in a squeeze bottle with a long
> narrow tip. I just squirt in on. It's expensive so you don't want to waist it.
> Some folks use a syringe. I find that application method to be too cumbersome.
> But that's just me.
> 
>> Also, I will follow your advice on checking whether the
>> string has ridden up with the bridge pin.  (The note really sounded
>> peculiar, as if it were loose or out of control, no matter which way I
>> turned.  It kept reverberating as well, as if the sustain pedal were on).
>> There is an illustration of what I think you were describing in Reblitz's
>> "Piano Servicing, Tuning, and Rebuilding" Chapter Four p. 116 -- "gently
>> tapping string down to bridge".  Should I be tapping the string or the
>> bridge pins?
> 
> For the beginner - only if your hear false beats of funky noises. A good thunk
> to the bridge pin to try and seat it (sometimes it will help on a loose pin,
> sometimes not). Light tapping on the string at the pin (light only!) to be
> sure it is snugged to the pin and bridge top. These will help. False beats can
> have a number of sources. I find that most are related to loose bridge pins.
> But some strings will go on being funky until replaced or the piano is rebuilt
> and string terminations are fixed.
> 
> Regarding the reverberating - what might be occurring, and what I observse
> sometimes, is when you mute off strings - with whatever kind of mute - just
> moving the string a little bit with your mute causes the damper to not dampen.
> If the damper works after mutes are removed you are OK. If it keeps on
> sounding, then you have some sort of damper problem.
> 
>> I appreciate being able to ask some questions from time to time, I think it
>> will really help.
> 
> Boy, it sure has helped me!
> 
>> Thank you Charles Neuman for your suggestion to write Randy Potter as well.
> 
> I called Randy a number of times when I went through the course. He was always
> very helpful. Pray that he is not in the mood to talk  ;-).
> 
>> I thought he'd be overburdened perhaps.
> 
> Naw. That's why you paid the big bucks!
> 
>> Many thanks to all again!
>> 
>> Laura
>> 
>> 
> 
>