capo work

[David Ilvedson]

It happens everytime...someone learns a process and then does it like crazy until they decide better...too late.   Don Mannino's string hook for leveling strings won't let you overpull..it breaks...;-]

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Richard Brekne" <ricb at pianostemmer.no>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 12/9/2007 3:15:57 PM
Subject: capo work


>Try filing capos on newer Hamburg instruments.  Even very good steel 
>files feel like they are slipping over glass. They harden the capo now 
>over here and go with about a 0.7 mm profile... a bit more rounded then 
>in earlier years.  I dont think it helps their front duplex tradeoff 
>problem much myself.  Just had to do one because of some fellows very 
>aggressive string leveling procedures. The fellow actually managed to 
>make some significant dents in that capo.  6 year old D.

>Cheers
>RicB


>     >The scraping idea is intriguing...although I've never found cast
>     >iron hard to file...

>    No, nor have I, but to achieve a perfectly regular 2mm or other
>    radius along the length of the bar using files strikes me as a bit of
>    a challenge.

>    JD