Today I tuned a new Boston 118. Nice piano! The muffler had on wing nut and out it came... Easy squeezy Japanezy David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Marshall Gisondi" <pianotune05 at hotmail.com> To: pianotech at ptg.org Received: 5/11/2010 8:22:47 PM Subject: [pianotech] muffler rail >Hi Everyone, >I tuned a Straus & Sons piano today, a Chinese piano I'm guessing since it was >newer with the muffler rail etc. There was a thread last week about these rails, and >I wanted to mention that this rail was much much easier to uninstall and install again. > Instead of that spring hooking to the arm and then to the piano, this had a little >piece of metal that stuck out on the rail that would be inserted into a hole on the >arm I just simply pushed it into the hold. It had rubber on one end that helped keep >it in place. and it worked great. while taking it off, I simply cup my hand around the >metal that goes into the hole on the side of the piano so that it will not touch the >piano thus scratching that finish. I wish all muffler rails were this easy to work with. >Marshall >Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician >Marshall's Piano Service >pianotune05 at hotmail.com >215-510-9400 >www.phillytuner.com >Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind >www.pianotuningschool.org Vancouver, WA > >_________________________________________________________________ >The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. >http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multicalendar&ocid=PID28 >326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_5
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