elbow job

[Elwood Doss]

Hey Alan,

Good article about installing plastic elbows.  And you are so right
about the damper flanges...however the best part was the article, "A
Humid Recital Stirs Bankok." It was hilarious!  How do I get permission
to copy the article for our Martin Area Music Teachers Association?
Nearly all of them are piano teachers (the others are voice teachers and
one lone low brass teacher) and they would love the article (although I
might have to explain about the felt between the white and black keys).
BTW one of our members is a concert pianist, native of Australia, who
toured with her late husband in the 50's and 60's as the Nelson and Neal
Piano Duo. They played on two Baldwin SD-10s which they hauled from
venue to venue in a truck.  He passed away in the late 60's and she has
since remarried and still does some limited performing.

 

Joy!

Elwood 

 

Elwood Doss, Jr., M.M.E., RPT

Piano Technician/Technical Director

Department of Music

145 Fine Arts Building

The University of Tennessee at Martin

Martin, TN  38238

731/881-1852

FAX: 731/881-7415

HOME: 731/587-5700

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From: Alan Barnard [mailto:tune4u at earthlink.net] 
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 10:11 PM
To: Pianotech List
Subject: Re: elbow job

 

If you'll go to http://www.ptg.org/newsletters/631/2006/07.pdf you'll
see a brief article with pictures and a discussion on making this job
quick and (relatively) easy.

 

I, too, use straight forcips and sometimes a small pair of curved-blade
needle-nosed pliers to snip the remains after first using regular pliers
(or fingers) to break any elbows not already broken.

 

One further thing: When you are lying on the floor--looking up--to clean
those whippens, it is a FANTASTIC idea to wear eye protection!

 

And, by the way, those damper flanges are doomed, sooner rather than
later.



	-----Original Message----- 
	From: piannaman at aol.com 
	Sent: Jan 5, 2007 9:28 PM 
	To: pianotech at ptg.org 
	Subject: elbow job 
	
	
	

	 Liszt,

	 

	I did an elbow job today on an old Sohmer 32 spinet.  I was
surprised at the quality of the piano, and it seems to me that Sohmer
wasn't necessarily trying to cut the overhead with the plastic they
used, because the rest of the instrument is quite well made.
Unfortunately, the damper flanges have are made of the same ivory
colored plastic.  Fortunately, they don't get the same impact as elbows.

	 

	The customers had the Beatles White Album on at my request as I
worked, which helped quite a bit.  Took about 4 hours.  Straight forceps
are really the thing to dig out broken plastic and bushings from the
wippens, IMHO.  I thought I was moving along pretty well, but 4 hours
seemed a bit long.  Then I thought, "88 elbows to break off, wips to
clean out, threads to clean out and lube, new elbows to clip in place,
and buttons to regulate."  This was the 3rd or 4th elbow job I've ever
done.  

	 

	I'm just curious how long this job takes some of you who have
done it more frequently.

	 

	Dave Stahl
	http://dstahlpiano.net/
	
	
	

	
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