spoon bender

[David Ilvedson]

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I've never bent a spoon bender.  I usually lose them way before=
 that.   The thin, flat spoon bender will not bend unless your=
 tuning with it...;-]

David I.

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From: ilex cameron ross <i1ex@earthlink.net>
To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
Received: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 16:16:22 -0400
Subject: RE: spoon bender

Actually, I've had the same problem. I ordered mine from Schaff=
 for the comb-handle. Not pleased. I guess you get what you pay=
 for!
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From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org=
 [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On Behalf Of Alpha88x@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 3:02 PM
To: pianotech@ptg.org
Subject: Re: spoon bender


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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