On 9/25/07, Richard Brekne <ricb at pianostemmer.no> wrote: > > Hi Mike... didnt see this as your posts come through on my reader with > everything in italics... so it looks like you've just pressed the send > button without writing a reply. > > Indeed... if there is any <<appropriate>> string seating procedure... > (and I am quite sure there is) this is the best course by far. Accuracy > doesnt work into the picture at all.... the point is that the string > should be in solid contact with the bridge surface... but not buried > into the wood... and most certainly does one not want to create a groove > in the bridge that has an even very short segment indented so low as to > be below the strings deflection line... as is extremely easy to do when > pressure is put on the string outside of the string segment on the > bridge surface itself. > > Neither is there any preferable goal attained by putting pressure > sideways against the bridge pin. The pin will force a depression in the > surface area of the bridge pin hole long before any thing of substance > will happen to the string itself, and this will do nothing but weaken > the termination... usually a prime reason for the appearance of cracks > on the bridge cap seen so often reaching down the notch at near > perpendicular angles from the bridge pins themselves. > > As someone else said... just because some fellow with 50 years > experience tells you something doesn't make it true... regardless of the > amount of respect he / she has in the business. > > Cheers > RicB > > > For those who prefer to seat their strings directly on the bridge I did > learn an alternative method, from the same source, using a standard > upright > hammer shank, place the tip of the shank on the string on top of the > bridge > toward the pin and tap it lightly with the side of a pliers. If you > strike > too hard, you will only split the shank! Repeat both sides of each > string, > you will find this slower, more expensive( you'll split a lot of hammer > shanks) and not as accurate as the other method but for those of you > afraid > of trying something new that might actually work, this would be the > ticket! > > Mike I'm sorry Ric but you didn't inform me of anything I wasn't already aware of nor did you add to the discussion so much as confuse it. So I reiterate don't try it just knock it. When I started in this business using an ETD was not only frowned on it was considered to be wrong! I guess if enough people do the wrong thing it becomes right, is that how it works? I'm still trying to make sense out of this whole PTG system of jumping all over someone who advances an idea or technique and declaring it to be a fool's errand due to the reader's misunderstanding of the technique. I read every week about someone or other spraying CA all over some piano and getting pats on the back for it, what I learned was to do nothing that the next tech could not redo, which does not include spraying CA everywhere. When did that become a tried & true technique and who decided it? I ask this question only because I want to know, since so many have rejected the technique I put forth, how many have tried it? I have been asking that all day, all I get back is surly replies, supposition and guesses. In my chapter if we are going to test something we actually do it, we don't just guess at the results!! My chapter is a part of the PTG, the same one you all belong to, I'd like to thank you for your support or for some of you trying it but I can't because there has been none of either. So I can only thank you all for nothing except your extreme closed mindedness! Mike -- Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience. - Denis Waitley I have learned my lesson very well, in the future, I won't so readily share the tricks and techniques I've learned over the last 38 years. If I wanted abuse and attacks, I'd talk to my wife! Michael Magness Magness Piano Service 608-786-4404 www.IFixPianos.com email mike at ifixpianos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070925/91960037/attachment.html
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