"Dull Screwdriver"!

[Isaac OLEG]

Punching is not the real word probably, a very soft rap with the
handle of your screwdriver on a brass rod in front of the bridge pins.

Or more probably a little tap on the pin itself, but I dont like to
drive them pins in the bridge, it is probably bad for the structure .
If the cap may be changed, or the pins changed and treated with epoxy,
it may be better not to use them as if it was nails.

Is not it ?

RRRRegards.

Isaac O.

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : pianotech-bounces@ptg.org
> [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]De la
> part de Ron Nossaman
> Envoye : lundi 7 octobre 2002 18:16
> A : Pianotech
> Objet : Re: "Dull Screwdriver"!
>
>
>
> >It was mentioned to seat strings with a "dull
> screwdriver"! Yikes! Come on
> >guys, lets's use the proper tool for the job, please! The
> proper tool is a
> >brass "drift" with a groove.
> >My olde shop teacher had two sayings, that he repeated,
> almost incessantly:
> >"You can't do a sharp job unless you have a sharp tool!"
> (ie you shouldn't
> >have a "dull screwdriver" in your kit!)
> >The second: "You can't do a proper job, unless you have
> the proper tool"!
> >These have always been my credo, if you will, and it works
> well for me.
> >My olde shop teacher would give an "F", for the day, if he
> caught you
> >opening a can of paint with a screwdriver! Just food for
> thought, on a
> >Monday!
> >Best Regards,
> >Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon)
>
>
> While I'd agree that you have no excuse for owning a dull
> screwdriver, I'll
> emphatically disagree that any kind of punch at all is the
> proper tool for
> seating strings. If it won't "fix" with just fingernail
> pressure, it won't
> "fix" with anything else either.
>
> Why is it that seating strings on the bridge is the very
> first thing on
> everyone's list for every single tone production problem
> imaginable,
> especially since it so rarely produces the hoped for effect
> of making the
> problem go away?
>
> Ron N
>
> _______________________________________________
> pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
>