---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment First of all, I want to send a hearty thanks to Andre, Roger, Isaac, and David Love, amongst others, for giving me great advice with which to prepare a piano for voicing. I've had a couple of good voicing experiences in recent weeks, but they both were centered around instruments that were thought to be in need of major repair/rebuild. Both were resurrected from the dead by a couple hours of hard needle work. Today's experience was different. It was a great opportunity to make a really nice piano come somewhere closer to its potential. I was hired to spend 8 hours easing keys, lubing various parts, doing some regulating, tuning, and then voicing, which really amounted to trying to get rid of some frontscale noise in the killer octave area. The first half of the day was spent doing the prep/regulation work. The second half turned out to be more interesting. AFter the initial tuning, I went to work trying to get rid of the banshees. As suggested, I loosened the offending strings, one note at a time, moved the strings to the side, and sanded the bottom of the capo bar. I massaged and lifted the strings, got them back in place and up to pitch. What a difference! Most of the nasties were gone in each of the offending notes. I was ready to needle if smoothing the capo bar didn't work, but except for a few single needle jabs on about three hammers, it wasn't at all necessary. And Andre, you were right: they are Abel hammers, not Renner Blues. The Abels are certainly the softer of the two. I really appreciate all of the advice given freely on this list. It allowed me to go into this job with confidence. Everything turned out the way it was supposed to. Dave Stahl ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/02/19/a6/94/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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