Greg, ] Next time, I will! :-) Avery At 09:14 AM 7/10/05, you wrote: >Avery, > Put a piece of masking tape around it > while your raising up the tension. That'll hold > it long enough for the strings to do the job by > themselves once tension is raised. > >Greg Newell > > > >At 07:05 AM 7/10/2005, you wrote: >>A question for you rebuilder types: >> >>I guess basically it's what is the procedure, >>when restringing, to ensure the plate >>horn is snug? Here's what happened: >> >>My apprentice had restrung the plain wire >>section of a Yamaha G3. To save a little >>time, I'd pulled up the middle strings for him >>with my SAT before he arrived (whole >>step flat) and then he was in the process of pulling in the outside strings. >> >>I happened to be standing on the bass side and >>noticed a piece of gold-painted metal >>lying on the keybed. A little quick looking and >>we discovered it was a wedge between >>the horn and the belly (is that what that >>area's called?). Well, it wouldn't go in >>but just a little, so I had him start lowering >>tension, starting at the bottom of the >>tenor section. After several notes, the wedge >>fell out, so I knocked it up again as >>far as it would go. Had to remove the sostenuto >>rod to give some "banging" clearance. >>Then, same procedure done again and once more >>the wedge fell out. We continued this >>until the wedge was almost all the way in. >>Finally, it went all the way up to where >>it'd been originally. Plate screws had been >>tightened, BTW. I'm assuming everything is >>OK now. No plate cracks, etc. :-) >> >>I've never had this happen before and am >>wondering why it did. Obviously, the plate >>moved/flexed a little for this to have >>happened. I'd never seen a wedge like this >>before, so didn't think to check it. I don't >>know exactly when it fell out: while >>unstringing, pounding in the pins when >>restringing, while pulling up the pitch? >> >>Any ideas on what I should have done to prevent >>this from happening? Any other comments, >>other than how lucky I am to have discovered >>this before the piano was fully strung and >>up to pitch? :-) Thanks. >> >>Avery Todd >> >>_______________________________________________ >>pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > >Greg Newell >Greg's piano Forté >mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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