Thump, Just wondering why your posts often contain text from other threads? Best wishes, Tom Driscoll ----- Original Message ----- From: "gordon stelter" <lclgcnp@yahoo.com> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 8:34 PM Subject: "Fish"....my best guess... ( saw Terry's lovely photo ) > is that it stiffens this area of the rim so that > vibrations travelling from the board are not creating > friction, and lost as heat energy ( due to molecular > "wiggling" ) but are more likely kicked, or > otherwise ransmitted, back into the board. Right ? > ( Praise Be to the Circle of Sound! ) > Thump > > --- Tom Driscoll <tomtuner@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > At 07:10 2/18/2005, you wrote: > > > >Carl wrote . . . > > > > >slim, wood handle screw driver, > > > > > which I use to insert the tuning felt. > > > > > > > > > > > >You use a screwdriver to push in the strip mute?? > > > >I've used a regular dinner knife, with tiny > > serrations for grip. It's > > > >strong, thin, and shiny . . nerver pulls the > > felt back out when moving > > to > > > >the next .----------------- > > > > > > > >Jim Kinnear > > > > > > You push a metal implement towards a soundboard? > > > > > > For years I've used recycled upright stickers > > which I've sharpened. No > > > chance of scratching and the bottom end can be > > used to massage down new > > > strings. > > > > > > I think the Journal CD should have my drawing of > > same from the early '80s. > > > Conrad Hoffsommer - Keyboard Technician > > > > > > Tools? What tools? > > I don' need no stinkin' tool ! > > Seriously , I was taught to insert the strip > > with out any tools. > > With a little practice it's really pretty easy > > and done with one hand. > > > > FWIW, > > Tom Driscoll RPT > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > >
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