Hi Barbara Takk for sist as they say over here ! I read your post with interest and it seemed to me your greatest concern was not getting enough leverage to pull / push up on the strings. If this is the case I would like to hear a discussion about just how much force people are using to accomplish string leveling. I have always used minimal force in doing this job, not wanting to over stress the brass holes in the agraffes, nor cause any undo wear on the capo. As such, I use Joe Gosses version of the string leveling tool (making sure the piano is reasonably level to begin with) and lift only what I absolutely have to on the first pass. I dont do broadband string lifting in the expectation of getting rid of some string noises. Rather I wait to hear what I have and if I need to minimize some string noise then I may try some additional lifting for whatever unisons are affected. btw.. I mention the bit about getting the piano in level first because I watched a fellow use this tool not so long ago and he had gotten all done and started mating hammers to strings and noticed that he had to individually file almost all his hammers so the left side was higher then the other. When I asked him whether he'd leveled his piano first or not he seemed to think it was not neccessary ... because the hammers would "of course be automatically tilted with the piano"... grin.. I had to giggle a bit despite myself. Cheers RicB
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