[Files] A very useful vertical mute

[Avery]

Ed,

At 08:03 AM 4/10/2006, you wrote:
>Pianotek RBN-U5G
>Schaff 3784
>
>Clicks in spinet actions are often caused by the old grommets which 
>have become hard, so you will have a use for the other 98 before long.
>I would also suggest, before trying to pull spinet actions with 
>rubber grommets, that you tweak a few with needle nose pliers.  If 
>they have gone hard, they will break when you push the grommets off 
>the key forks.

Sounds like money to me! :-D I've done more than one of those jobs. 
Also those "wonderful" elbows!
Made a lot of money for a lot of techs!

Avery

>
>
>Ed Sutton
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: pianotune05 at comcast.net
>Sent: Apr 10, 2006 8:45 AM
>To: ed440 at mindspring.com, Pianotech List
>Subject: Re: [Files] A very useful vertical mute
>
>Hi Ed,
>Would you happen to know the catelog numbers for these 
>grommets?  This idea sounds interesting.  Thanks Ed
>Marshall
>
>-------------- Original message --------------
>From: ed440 at mindspring.com
>
> > The mute discussion caused me to remember an idea I had some months
> > ago while driving from a miserable spinet repair and tuning. This
> > afternoon I overcame my inertia and made some samples, and they work
> > great.
> >
> > The rubber grommets for spinet key end forks have a groove around the
> > perimeter, and are just the right size to fit between adjacent unison
> > groups at the V-bar of a vertical piano.
> >
> > Add a wire handle, and you have a miracle mute!
> >
> > Snap it in at the V-bar, press the damper pedal and slide it down
> > below the damper tops, and flip the handle forward onto the hammer
> > rest rail. You have a mute that is solidly attached to the strings,
> > and its handle is completely out of the way of the hammers, even on
> > the tightest spinet treble.
> >
> > I hope the attached photos get through the filter.
> >
> > Ed Sutton
> >
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