[pianotech] tuned my first "bird_cage" piano

David Boyce David at piano.plus.com
Sun Jan 8 12:06:10 MST 2012


Exactly!

David.
www.davidboyce.co.uk

> This sounds very long-winded, tipping the action every time you pull 
> the strip mute- for setting unisons.  In order to keep the damping 
> tidy you usually have to secure the end buttons/clips as well.   I 
> suppose we are so used to overdampers over here that, as David Boyce 
> says, we get used to one Papps wedge and find that the gentle stroking 
> of the wedge over the strings soon tells us when to push the wedge 
> in.  Like all tuning techniques, it is frustrating at first  but soon 
> becomes second nature and very fast.
> Richard

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