Hi Julia, There is (or was) a small yamaha tool designed for just this purpose--so I guess you have Yamaha's blessings. Take it easy on "out of the piano voicing". At 12:54 PM 22/07/2004 EDT, you wrote: >Greetings, > > & needling jobs for customers who own old, old uprights and I >take the actions home to card and do basic deeep shoulder needling. > > to the piano, I find I need to custom or individually needle >the hammers to tonally match/blend the octaves, or rather, make the side by >side notes sound homogonous/alike next to one another, blending the sections. > > With the action in place, when I attemp this, my voicing >tool's handle gets in the way and is too big to use in the small space >between the hammers and the strings. I don't like the idea of swinging the >action back and forth to needle, listen, needle, listen...etc. > > > > Julia Gottchall, > Reading, PA Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T. mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK S4S 5G7 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner
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