Papps redesign?

[Greg Newell]

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Carl,
         You have WAY too much time on your hands. :-)


Greg Newell



At 01:33 PM 7/5/2005, you wrote:
>Yours is a left handed design.  Here's my right handed version.
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>Carl Meyer PTG assoc
>Santa Clara, Ca.
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:sarah@graphic-fusion.com>Sarah Fox
>To: <mailto:pianotech@ptg.org>Pianotech
>Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 9:33 PM
>Subject: Papps redesign?
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>Hi all,
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>Robin originally wrote,
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> >If you look at a Papps wedge closely it would take some fine wood=20
> working  skills to duplicate one. Maybe one of our expert sound board=20
> makers could make a few.
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>... which was a challenge I couldn't well pass up!  ;-)
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>Ladies and gentlemen, I give to you my redesign of the Papps mute,=20
>designed especially for grand piano usage (doesn't fall over, even on the=
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>lowest trichords).  It is precision crafted from the finest hardwood,=20
>engineered to exacting specifications and sturdy enough to be handed down=
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>through generations to come.
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>[]
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>Its simple, but elegant design enables the skilled artisan to clamp the=20
>outer two strings of a trichord very quickly and with ease.  The felt=20
>pieces attached to the side press firmly against the adjacent strings,=20
>damping against them with the same effectiveness as two rubber wedge mutes=
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>inserted in the same positions.
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>Only $15.  Now taking orders.  Operators standing by!  <grin>
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>Seriously, it takes only a minute or two to make one:  Take it apart, and=
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>weaken the spring a bit.  File/sand down the wood on the inside tip,=20
>tapering it to a broad point.  With a small triangular file, file a notch=
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>on each side.  Reassemble.  Glue felt to the sides.
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>Of course as effective as this little beauty is, I think it's something=20
>only an amateur can use, because the professionals have to *look*,=20
>er...  "professional."  (I wonder if there's some way to dress it up so=20
>that it doesn't look like a clothes pin (which it is NOT!!).  Perhaps a=20
>piece of unshrunk heat sink tubing around the tell-tale spring area?
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>All in fun!  (But it really does work -- quite well, in fact.)
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>Peace,
>Sarah
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Greg Newell
Greg's piano Fort=E9
mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net=20
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