---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment 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. > >Carl Meyer PTG assoc >Santa Clara, Ca. > > >----- 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? > >Hi all, > >Robin originally wrote, > > >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. > >... which was a challenge I couldn't well pass up! ;-) > >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= =20 >lowest trichords). It is precision crafted from the finest hardwood,=20 >engineered to exacting specifications and sturdy enough to be handed down= =20 >through generations to come. > >[] > > >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= =20 >inserted in the same positions. > >Only $15. Now taking orders. Operators standing by! <grin> > >Seriously, it takes only a minute or two to make one: Take it apart, and= =20 >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= =20 >on each side. Reassemble. Glue felt to the sides. > >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? > >All in fun! (But it really does work -- quite well, in fact.) > >Peace, >Sarah > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives Greg Newell Greg's piano Fort=E9 mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net=20 ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 10c0dfe.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 29957 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/94/2d/70/70/10c0dfe.jpg ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment--
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