"Fish"....my best guess... ( saw Terry's lovely photo )

[tom driscoll]

Thump,
    Just wondering why your posts often contain text from other threads? 
     Best wishes,
    Tom Driscoll
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gordon stelter" <lclgcnp@yahoo.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 8:34 PM
Subject: "Fish"....my best guess... ( saw Terry's lovely photo )


> is that it stiffens this area of the rim so that
> vibrations travelling from the board are not creating
> friction, and lost as heat energy (  due to molecular 
> "wiggling"  )  but are more likely kicked, or
> otherwise ransmitted,  back into the board. Right ?
>    ( Praise Be to the Circle of Sound! )
>      Thump
> 
> --- Tom Driscoll <tomtuner@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > > At 07:10 2/18/2005, you wrote:
> > > >Carl wrote . . .
> > > > >slim, wood handle screw driver,
> > > > > which I  use to insert the tuning felt.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >You use a screwdriver to push in the strip mute??
> > > >I've used a regular dinner knife, with tiny
> > serrations for grip. It's
> > > >strong, thin, and shiny . .  nerver pulls the
> > felt back out when moving
> > to
> > > >the next .-----------------
> > > >
> > > >Jim Kinnear
> > >
> > > You push a metal implement towards a soundboard?
> > >
> > > For years I've used recycled upright stickers
> > which I've sharpened. No
> > > chance of scratching and the bottom end can be
> > used to massage down new
> > > strings.
> > >
> > > I think the Journal CD should have my drawing of
> > same from the early '80s.
> > >  Conrad Hoffsommer - Keyboard Technician
> > 
> > 
> >     Tools? What tools?
> >     I don' need no stinkin' tool !
> >     Seriously , I was taught to insert the strip
> > with out any tools.
> >     With a little practice it's really pretty easy
> > and done with one hand.
> > 
> >     FWIW,
> >     Tom Driscoll RPT
> > >
> > 
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