This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Dale, I'm trying to set bearing on a modified Emerson. Modified for = accujust hitch pins. >From a friend I borrowed the Balwin instructions. Briefly::: Without bass strings installed, string treble and set = bearing to (zero) with strings at pitch. No load on board. =20 Now set specified number of notes starting at bottom to 1 div (.5 = degrees). Number of notes depending on model of piano. Then next group = of notes to 2 div (1 degree). Then the last group to 3 div (1 1/2 = degrees). Lastly install the bass strings and set at pitch to 1 div (.5 = degrees). Then I see a note saying -Quote- A bearing value, previously set, cannot be rechecked because the = accumulated force of all strings on the bridge will lower the soundboard = and reduce the settings which were originally set. Pianos equipped with the vertical (acu-just) hitch pins are designed to = function with a minimum positive bearing at the bridges, compared with = other pianos with string rests and angled hitch pins. Unquote!! Now if I designed something that had to be adjusted and then couldn't be = checked, I wouldn't admit it. Just how do you design a piano to not = need much bearing? Sounds too much like advertising garbage mouth to = me. Like, "Our piano is so dam good that we don't need so much = stinkin' down bearing." I'm impressed with the idea, but I'm amused at the rhetoric. I haven't felt too spunky the last few days so I'm still adjusting the = bearing on this Emerson. I've noticed that when I started I found some = bearing with a regular rocker gauge, but no bearing with either the = Lowell gauge or the Baldwin gauge. Both are a pain to use. I want to = look into that. When I get it fingered out, then you'll all get the = finger. Grin.=20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Erwinspiano@AOL.COM=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 2:07 PM Subject: Re: Baldwin accu-hitch pins In a message dated 1/19/2002 11:23:14 AM Pacific Standard Time, = RNossaman@KSCABLE.com writes: Subj:Re: Baldwin accu-hitch pins=20 Date:1/19/2002 11:23:14 AM Pacific Standard Time From:RNossaman@KSCABLE.com Reply-to:pianotech@ptg.org To:pianotech@ptg.org Sent from the Internet=20 > > Ron (somebody) tell me what I'm missing on the acujust in a way I = can absorb > it. What's that you say? not possible. hmmmmmmm > =20 > Dale Erwin Dale, I'm not sure what the question is here. Like you have adjusted plate = height to fine tune bearing, you can do the same thing section by section, or = note by note with the hitch pin adjustment. Your initial plate height is = determined just like you would normally do it, only your back scale target = isn't the top of an aliquot, but a vertical position on the hitch. Hi Ron Ok I get this sort of but the place where I'm hung up is that as you = start driving the strings down on the hitch your bearing increases as = does the amount the board is compressing as you go. Just like in pitch = raising. So how do you know when enough is enough and when do you know = that there is enough ,of the desired deflections so often discussed. = Meaning a 1 to 11/2 degree angle of deflection depending where in the = scale we are talking about. Dale If you shoot for somewher around 4mm up the hitch as a target, you have some room for final = vertical positioning as you find necessary.=20 Ron Once again how could a person possibly know what the final position = is? Does that make sense? =20 Ron Uhhh not yet Ron. I must be coming at this from a really strange = angle of comprehension. I took Stacy Yokums class in Reno and he = couldn't answer my question either. I wasn't the only one asking it = either. Let me try another way by explaining where I'm coming from. Ok Take a new board and new set of too tall bridge caps. Install = plate and cut the tops so that without any load on the board you have a = 1 degree angle of deflection in the lower tenor rising to 1& 1/2 degrees = thru the tenor right up to note 88. Now install all the strings from = the tenor /bass break to 1st capo section at. Tune these up to pitch. = Before you string further take a bearing string and check the remaining = deflection. Meaning once again that the soundboard is sinking under down = bearing pressure as we go. If done this way I can guarantee an = insuffiecnt amount of bearing to drive the treble in your shiny new = board. The bearing string will probably touch bridge and aliqot at the = same time or almost but that isn't enough bearing for trebles. In fact I you can't even read much deflection with the string at = all. Unfortunately this is the very method Nick Gravagne outlined in the = journal many years ago and it doesn't work unless you pre- stress the = board some. He didn't correct or I should say amend it and I only found = out he was using pre stressing and the 1 1/2 degree angle of deflection = in one of my conversations with him a year or so ago. MY point oh yes is how in the acujust system does one approximate = total and adequate deflection with any confidence that your not creating = the problem I described above.=20 My answer so far is that you can't. Its more of a guesstimate than = I'm willing to make until somebody can give me some clarification. Does this help to see my angle of deflection!!!!!!! =20 Dale Erwin Ron N ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/49/2a/6d/87/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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