On 12/9/2010 10:58 PM, Tom Gorley wrote: > It's an Ibach upright with the damper bar and wires in front of the hammers....making tuning somewhat of a nightmare....trying to get mutes in between strings. And forget about a temperament strip. Also getting hammers onto pins is not such an easy task either. Has anyone worked on pianos like this. The Papps mute works very well for this. It reaches through the birdcage wires. You can pluck across the strings with it to find out where you are. What I did (back when I was tuning them -- haven't seen one in awhile -- was take the action out, remove the left pedal's felt strip, insert the temperament strip quite low, reinstall the action, tune, then pull the action forward, pull out the strip, put back in the soft pedal felt, get the action back in place, and tune the side strings by using the Papps mute on one side, then pulling it out for the third string. Susan Kline -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101210/0db9ec63/attachment.htm>
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