Hi, Marshall They often have regular square pins, but usually #1's. While you order the oval head tip, it wouldn be a good idea to buy a #1 tip if you don't already have one. Sometimes your #2 tip just won't quite grab on them, and even if it does it has a ton of slack. It's nice to have a spare tuning hammer -- doesn't need to be anything fancy -- for odd-sized tips, so you don't have to undo your normal one each time. Plus it can be used if something happens to your everyday one. It might be a normal overdamper birdcage sort of piano, or it may be one stage earlier, a "sticker" piano with vellum hinges instead of flanges, and even a wooden plate instead of metal. If so, it's going to be REALLY fragile, and hard to fix. Plus the tuning might not really be very good or stable. If it is this earlier kind of overdamper, and it's below pitch, I'd try to get them to agree to leave it down, and just tune it to itself. Makes a garden variety birdcage seem really robust. Sometimes one needs to adjust the dampers a little bit so they don't leak quite so badly. Don't try for superb damping -- they aren't going to do it, and they weren't even really designed for it. The music desk hangs on hinges at the top of the front (the part you will remove.) Hold the bottom where the music sits and swing it to the side (I think usually to the right) and it will scissor together flat and can be folded inside up near the top. Fold it up before you take the front off, to get it safe and out of the way. Good luck -- maybe it will be above average for its class. Susan P.S. Be sure you have a Papp's mute. You'll want to reach through the birdcage and action and be able to pluck across the strings to find out where you are. People usually have written note names up near the tuning pins to help navigate by, but I doubt that will help you? Hearing the pitch by plucking with the Papp's mute will probably help a lot. On 1/4/2011 2:21 PM, Marshall Gisondi wrote: > Hi Roger, > Thank you for the tip, no pun intended. :-) I'll let him know about > it's value etc. I understand it's quite hard to find a birdcage here > in the states that's in great shape. Is that correct? These oval > tips, these are the type used on square grands. I'll check to see if > Schaff sells them. Thank you again > Marshall > > Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician > Marshall's Piano Service > */pianotune05 at hotmail.com/* > 215-510-9400 > */www.phillytuner.com <http://www.phillytuner.com/> /* > Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind > www.pianotuningschool.org <http://www.pianotuningschool.org/> > Vancouver, WA > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110104/0ee444c0/attachment-0001.htm>
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