Sounds like it "might" be the Rappaport's? Husband & wife team, anyway. :-) Avery On 8/22/07, Farrell <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > > > For rebushing, I took a class from......, from........, from........., oh > gosh, what's his name - husband and wife team - they used (or still are) to > be head techs for Tanglewood - just can't think of his name. Anyway, Renner > pre-glued action cloth (available from Renner USA) and the European long > pinning rods (available from Jurgen @ Pianoforte Supply). > > Sounds like somebody needs to go to some conferences for continuing > education...... (and it ain't Ed!). > > Terry Farrell > > ----- Original Message ----- > > What's the best method for bushing all the centers > quickly, and uniformly, please? > > > Don Mannino has a great class on this subject. What I do is to determine > the size of pin that will be slightly larger than any of the pins in the row > of flanges, determine the proper straight sided reamer for that pin size, > and then go through the row, reaming the bushings for the oversize pin. > Don't spend time custom fitting various pin sizes to each bushing, ie, if > you have 19, 191/2, 20 sized pins in your hammer flanges, find what reaming > is needed to fit a size 21 1/2 pin in there and then do all of them to that > size. Odds are that the action will never be pinned again, and if it does, > there are still several sizes yet to go, if needed. > this procedure is not only as consistant as can be hoped for, it is > economically feasible. > > Ed Foote RPT > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070822/1eaa31ea/attachment.html
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