Need tech/shipping advice

[Jon Page]

At 03:00 PM 4/22/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Lance;
> Just go ahead and tie down the hammers and make sure that the key upstop 
>rail is there. if the piano has a place for a capstan block put one in or 
>tighten the one that is there.

I have cut a wedges out of hammer felt trimmings and inserted them between the
bottom of the block and the action brackets.
That'll keep it snug.  Easily installed/removed.

>  The probability of "something" happening is not too great but the cost of 
>repairing "something" that does happen would far outweigh any tie down costs.
>
>  When I move pianos across several states I don't 'tie' down the hammers.
 I 
>do cover the hammers with multiple layers of tissue paper in such a way that 
>the hammers are in effect locked down between the backcheck and the hammer 
>flange and move very little if at all.
>
>If the question has risen in your mind whether to tie down or not...... tie 
>down :-)
>Jim Bryant (FL)
>  

Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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