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<DIV>OK, fair enough, you may well be right, the strings are pretty =
rusty.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>> I mean to do a couple more strings, leaving the =
agraffes
alone, and a couple more agraffes leaving the original strings in place, =
to try
to isolate the biggest contributor to the improvement, but haven't =
gotten around
to it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>May be a good learning experience, but I think the =
bottom line
is when restringing, either recondition (I have and use the reamer from
Pianotek) or replace the agraffes (I just replace usually) - don't =
just
leave them there and slop some gold paint on them (like what I always =
have seen
done).</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: =
black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=mjbkspal@execpc.com =
href="mailto:mjbkspal@execpc.com">Mike and Jane
Spalding</A> </DIV>
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title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 18, 2002 =
7:59
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Painted String
Rendering</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Terry,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>My "learning to tune" piano had / has exactly the =
same
characteristic throughout the tenor agraffe section. No paint, =
but 75
years of rust, and conformation of string and agraffe to each
other. After attending a David Betts seminar on =
agraffes at
the Arlington convention, I restrung two of the worst notes, following =
David's
procedure for cleaning and reaming (tool available at Pianotek) the
agraffe. What a difference! Those 6 strings now =
render as
smoothly as any strings on any piano I have run into. I =
mean to do
a couple more strings, leaving the agraffes alone, and a couple more =
agraffes
leaving the original strings in place, to try to isolate the biggest
contributor to the improvement, but haven't gotten around to =
it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Regarding paint, I am doing some action work on a =
M&H BB
for a dealer, which he had restrung by someone else. There is a =
lot of
gold paint on the strings, looks like overspray from touching up the
plate. I have tuned this piano, and didn't notice any problems =
with
string rendering. Maybe the paint doesn't extend into the =
agraffe
bearing surfaces, but my bets are on rust, conformance, and burrs on =
the
agraffe, not paint.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Good luck selling the restringing =
job!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Mike</FONT></DIV>
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black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
href="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">Farrell</A> </DIV>
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title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 18, =
2002 6:10
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Painted String
Rendering</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>I indicated in my original post that several times this tuning =
and on
previous tunings I have applied a liberal dose of Protek to the =
string, the
felt, the agraffe - all to no avail (maybe worked a little less bad, =
but a
bad problem still existed - I spent 3 hours tuning that monster that =
was
only about 4 cents flat - of course that included crawling around =
looking
for buzzes, pondering the sticky string thing, and afterward =
listening to
this woman rip through a bunch of Rachmananof (sp?) (the whole =
process was
not painful - even 60-year-old tubby bass strings don't sound all =
that bad
when you hit them just right and in the right order - and my =
upper
tenor section seemed to hold it's tune!).</DIV>
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<DIV>Terry Farrell</DIV>
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<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: =
black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=mcpiano@globetrotter.net
href="mailto:mcpiano@globetrotter.net">Marcel Carey</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 17, =
2002
11:03 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: Painted String =
Rendering</DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial =
color=#0000ff>Terry,<BR><BR>I remember
someone telling this list that the culprit could very well be =
friction
between the strings and it's underfelt. I had a Heintzman that was =
excatly
like what you described and I cured it with a somewhat generous
application of protek on the underfelt.<BR><BR>Try it out and let =
us
know.<BR><BR>Marcel Carey<BR></FONT><BR>-----Original
Message-----<BR>From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [</FONT><A
href="mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org"><FONT
size=2>mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org</FONT></A><FONT =
size=2>]On
Behalf<BR>Of Farrell<BR>Sent: 17 janvier, 2002 17:30<BR>To:
pianotech@ptg.org<BR>Subject: Painted String =
Rendering<BR><BR><BR>I tuned
a 1940s Baldwin L today. It has always been a nasty piano to
tune.<BR><BR>Sounds like we have a good reason to restring.
Yes?<BR><BR></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial =
color=#000080>If the
customer can afford it GO FOR IT !<BR></FONT><BR>Terry
=
Farrell<BR><BR><BR><BR></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>=
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