Split-ring pliers will work for this too. Eric Wolfley, RPT Director of Piano Services College-Conservatory of Music University of Cincinnati -----Original Message----- From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Fred Sturm Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 11:46 AM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] fortepiano parts? On Apr 24, 2009, at 8:45 AM, Israel Stein wrote: > Paul, > > If this is a Walter (Viennese action) then if you really want to be > prepared for the eventuality of having to do action work on the fly, > I would suggest having some complete kapsel/shank/hammer sets on > hand. That way if anything breaks, you just pop out the action, pull > out the old kapsel and put in the new one, shank - hammer and all. > > One time I had to do this in Boston for Igor Kipnis in mid concert - > he broke a beak. I didn't have the parts, but he traveled with his > own piano and had spares. Beats gluing it back on in mid-concert (he > probably had his own guy do that later, to make another spare). > > Israel Stein > A pair of Kapsel pliers is a good thing to have - they spread the kapsel so you can remove the hammer assembly. I can't think off hand who carries them, maybe Jurgen at pianofortesupply. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu
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