[CAUT] Piano Cuniform

[Jim Busby]

Kent Webb carries masking tape and quickly lays down a piece. Instead of taking it off every time he adds another as needed, then after the work is done he quickly rips them off. I've done it this way for a year now. You can write with a pencil and even put notes there ("extra juice needed here...") I'll never use chalk again, if I can help it.

Jim Busby

From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of David Stocker
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 10:46 AM
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Subject: [CAUT] Piano Cuniform

One of the first things Ulrich did after pulling the action and placing it atop another piano (covered) was to take off the keystop rail, and sand the top of it. He said something about liking everything to look clean. At that moment it seemed extreme, but it turned out that was exactly where he made all of these marks. At the end of every pass of voicing, he would run his first finger and thumb over the keystop rail to erase all of the markings. Because he had made it smooth, it came clean easily.

I think he made marks on the front of the rail to denote needling lower on the hammer, towards the top for higher up on the shoulder.

David Stocker, RPT
Tumwater, WA

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