<html> <body> Ed, At 08:03 AM 4/10/2006, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Pianotek RBN-U5G Schaff 3784   Clicks in spinet actions are often caused by the old grommets which have become hard, so you will have a use for the other 98 before long.  I would also suggest, before trying to pull spinet actions with rubber grommets, that you tweak a few with needle nose pliers.  If they have gone hard, they will break when you push the grommets off the key forks.</blockquote> Sounds like money to me! :-D I've done more than one of those jobs. Also those "wonderful" elbows! Made a lot of money for a lot of techs! Avery <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">     Ed Sutton -----Original Message----- From: pianotune05@comcast.net Sent: Apr 10, 2006 8:45 AM To: ed440@mindspring.com, Pianotech List Subject: Re: [Files] A very useful vertical mute Hi Ed, Would you happen to know the catelog numbers for these grommets?  This idea sounds interesting.  Thanks Ed Marshall   <dl> <dd>-------------- Original message -------------- <dd>From: ed440@mindspring.com <dd>> The mute discussion caused me to remember an idea I had some months <dd>> ago while driving from a miserable spinet repair and tuning. This <dd>> afternoon I overcame my inertia and made some samples, and they work <dd>> great. <dd>> <dd>> The rubber grommets for spinet key end forks have a groove around the <dd>> perimeter, and are just the right size to fit between adjacent unison <dd>> groups at the V-bar of a vertical piano. <dd>> <dd>> Add a wire handle, and you have a miracle mute! <dd>> <dd>> Snap it in at the V-bar, press the damper pedal and slide it down <dd>> below the damper tops, and flip the handle forward onto the hammer <dd>> rest rail. You have a mute that is solidly attached to the strings, <dd>> and its handle is completely out of the way of the hammers, even on <dd>> the tightest spinet treble. <dd>> <dd>> I hope the attached photos get through the filter. <dd>> <dd>> Ed Sutton <dd>> </dl></blockquote></body> </html>