Laying Down on the Job

[Farrell]

FWIW: Great fun IMHO.

One other advantage of the tilter. I keep my uprights on the tilter for the complete rebuilding process - they provide a solid & stable platform. Also, the tilter is easy to tilt slightly and block up at various angles for bass string removal. Nothing is worse than to have the old upright all ready for bass string removal only to find out that you don't have enough arc in the string travel to hit your target. I usually put up a cardboard target over a window on the far side of the shop (about 30 feet). After a few test strings you can find an angle for the tilter such that you can get pretty good at hitting the target. Hint: remove stringing braid before shooting strings - that often will hang up the string or at least make its trajectory unpredictable - you want a nice clean take-off.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Tunapianer@aol.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 1:21 AM
Subject: Re: Laying Down on the Job


> 
> In a message dated 10/1/2002 12:55:35 PM, lclgcnp@yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> >I advise getting a tilter, the collapsible kind. it
> >will pay for itself quickly! 
> 
> List,
> 
> If I'm going to tilt a piano on it's back for extended work, are these 
> folding tilters strong or stable enough to support the piano, or are they 
> intended just for temporary use for moving the piano?
> 
> If they are strong enough, then even for 100-year-old behemoths?
> 
> Do I need to build some other kind of more permanent support structure for 
> the piano to rest on?  If so, any recommendations?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Greg S.
> Pensacola, FL
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