[CAUT] fortepiano parts?

[Paul T Williams]

I have some of those! :>).




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Split-ring pliers will work for this too.


Eric Wolfley, RPT
Director of Piano Services
College-Conservatory of Music
University of Cincinnati

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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
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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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