---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment There's a four needle voicing tool with a rotating head, twist to tighten. It's very convenient for uprights. Andrew At 12:54 PM 7/22/2004 -0400, you wrote: >Greetings, > > I got a really good idea! I have done about 5 hammer > carding & needling jobs for customers who own old, old uprights and I > take the actions home to card and do basic deeep shoulder needling. > > However, when I return the action 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. > > The great idea is to dismantle the voicing tool, saw off > the 1" or so handle insert thereby having just the needle (cartridge?) > head in hand so that I can work quickly with the upright action in place. > Is this a good idea? > >Julia Gottchall, >Reading, PA ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/19/68/da/19/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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