Naphtha update and question

[Michelle Smith]

Hi Avery.  I was going to use the Naphtha but ended up using Joe's Goose
Juice.  Worked great.

 

Concerning the traveling paper, I just slipped them in temporarily to see if
they would help rotate the hammer back into the grooves.  I didn't want to
do anything permanent yet.  In three of the four, it helped.  The grooves
definitely need to be dealt with.

 

Have a great evening.

 

Michelle

 

 

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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Avery
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 6:54 PM
To: Pianotech List
Subject: Re: Naphtha update and question

 

Hi Michelle, 

At 05:50 PM 9/5/2006, you wrote:



Hi all.  A couple of days ago I asked the group about Naphtha and other
liquids that might free up an old Steinway action.   The hammers were really
stiff (1 to 1.5 swings) so I removed each hammer, lubricated, wagged them
back and forth, and got about 5 swings out of them.  


What did you lube them with? Naptha? 




I was so proud of myself until I put the action back in the piano.  The
action moved much better but two other things happened:
  

1.	The piano had a more mellow tone--almost muffled in some areas 
2.	About four notes have a strange small tinny sound almost like a
guitar string is being plucked.  

 
Is it possible that the strings arent hitting exactly in the same (deep)
grooves as before?  I put some travel paper under the tinny notes which
helped some but not all. 


Why did you do that? Were they not travelling correctly? Tinny notes don't
necessarily mean they aren't traveling correctly. Travel the shanks, do the
burning and then see what they sound like. Then do the hammer to string
mating. Traveling isn't the way to correct a "tinny" sounding note.
Necessarily! :-) 

Avery 




 
 
Still learning and looking forward to your opinions, 
 
Michelle Smith

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