spoon bender

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In a message dated 10/18/2004 4:46:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
ilvey@sbcglobal.net writes:

> How the heck did you bend a spoon bending tool? 

Greetings, 

              Well... I think that the very first piano I used it on, had 
really hard spoons, which may have initially weakened the tool early in it's 
life.

            After that....it sort of got gradually weaker. The spoons in 100+ 
year old pianos seem very hard, for some reason.  I think the integrity of 
the tool was further compromised with each sucessive old piano with hard spoons 
that I worked on. 

             One day, I went to bend spoons, I could feel something bending 
(satisfying feeling to think you're adjusting/correcting) but when I removed 
the tool and checked the amount of ...damper lift etc...I noticed no change in 
adjustment. 

              The bender wasn't doing it's job AT ALL, even though I had the 
thing right at the base of the spoon!   Then, I puzzlingly, looked at the tool 
and to my dismay, noticed that IT was bent.  (Can you just picture 
this?...whenever I look like this, my sister asks, "Did you do another Lucy Ricardo") 
How un-nerving that was. I felt so out of control.
     
Julia, 
Reading, PA              



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