This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment ------=_NextPart_001_0011_01C5814C.FB762A10 ------=_NextPart_002_0012_01C5814C.FB762A10 Yours is a left handed design. Here's my right handed version. Carl Meyer PTG assoc Santa Clara, Ca. ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Sarah Fox=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 9:33 PM Subject: Papps redesign? Hi all, Robin originally wrote, >If you look at a Papps wedge closely it would take some fine wood = working skills to duplicate one. Maybe one of our expert sound board = makers could make a few.=20 ... which was a challenge I couldn't well pass up! ;-) Ladies and gentlemen, I give to you my redesign of the Papps mute, = designed especially for grand piano usage (doesn't fall over, even on = the lowest trichords). It is precision crafted from the finest = hardwood, engineered to exacting specifications and sturdy enough to be = handed down through generations to come. Its simple, but elegant design enables the skilled artisan to clamp = the outer two strings of a trichord very quickly and with ease. The = felt pieces attached to the side press firmly against the adjacent = strings, damping against them with the same effectiveness as two rubber = wedge mutes inserted in the same positions. Only $15. Now taking orders. Operators standing by! <grin> Seriously, it takes only a minute or two to make one: Take it apart, = and weaken the spring a bit. File/sand down the wood on the inside tip, = tapering it to a broad point. With a small triangular file, file a = notch on each side. Reassemble. Glue felt to the sides. Of course as effective as this little beauty is, I think it's = something only an amateur can use, because the professionals have to = *look*, er... "professional." (I wonder if there's some way to dress = it up so that it doesn't look like a clothes pin (which it is NOT!!). = Perhaps a piece of unshrunk heat sink tubing around the tell-tale spring = area? All in fun! (But it really does work -- quite well, in fact.) Peace, Sarah ------=_NextPart_002_0012_01C5814C.FB762A10 An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/92/67/6c/dd/attachment.htm ------=_NextPart_002_0012_01C5814C.FB762A10-- ------=_NextPart_001_0011_01C5814C.FB762A10 A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 29958 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/0d/60/f1/79/attachment.jpe ------=_NextPart_001_0011_01C5814C.FB762A10-- ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: papp.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 46298 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/dc/a4/c7/fc/papp.jpg ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment--
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