[pianotech] can I take a different tack?

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On uprights, the soft peddle is perfectly tailored for a mandolin or tack
rail.  I've used med heavy pneumatic motor cloth, cut a pattern from the
string angles in the center section, lower treble, and cut the middle of the
string spacings out of the cloth, leaving a sort of V shape, on the end you
may attach OK fasteners, which will, when pedal depressed, give you a great,
user controlled rinky-tink tone you desire.  Lay wide 2" or 3" masking tape
directly on the strings, graphite the pattern, apply tape to cloth, and
cut...quick, easy and lasts.
Tom Mc Nabb
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Berley Antoine Firmin II" <firmin1 at bellsouth.net>
To: "Mark Wisner" <markwisner at earthlink.net>; <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] can I take a different tack?


> Mark is correct about the metal tacks eating up the bass strings. So will
> the "paper fastener" type that hang on little leather or bellows cloth
tabs,
> if they installed in a rail by the bass strings. All "mandolin rails" I've
> seen just engage the tenor and on up. A better solution is to use hard
fibre
> squares or half-round wood dowels glued to the tab ends. There are other
> myriad ways of achieving the effect, including making a separate rail that
> carries little plungers of wood with "paddles" at the ends that are spring
> loaded. When a choke-type cable is pulled, the rail brings the little
> paddles in line with the hammer shanks. The shanks hit the paddles and the
> ends hit the strings. When the choke cable is pushed in, the line of the
> little wooden dowels moves in between the shanks so as not to be hit by
> them.
>
> Berley
>
>
>


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