David makes a couple good points. The opportunity to dress up the capo can help quite a bit. If you do this, I would suggest following Ed McMorrows advice relavant to the capo bar. I have done things this way for many years and it never ceases to amaze me how much cleaner and rounder the sound of the upper treble range becomes with that narrow clean V profile. As far as the aliquots are concerned tho... course you can grind em down a bit... but you want to make sure they are not already to low to begin with...regardless of the overall bearing. I dont know how common that is... but I would suppose its worth making sure. Another thing about taking all the strings off... is that you can address any bridge pin concerns very easily. If you do remove all stings.... I personally like to lower tension rather slowly and evenly. Not every board reacts kindly to just having tension fully lowered one string after the other. In fact, I would think most boards would find it at the least rather uncomfortable. RicB David Love wrote: > By unloading the board you can then wedge the board down and check the > bearing as well as compare the before and after to see how much flex you > are getting in the board. On a Steinway you can change the bearing > somewhat by grinding or shimming the aliquots should you find a change is > in order and you don't want to pull the plate. I would prefer to take all > the strings off to check the bridges and the bearing, dress the capo bar, > polish the aliquots, put some nice clean understring felt on the plate, > etc.. > > David Love > davidlovepianos@earthlink.net > > - -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html
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