Strate Mate...Was Remedial String Leveling

[Joe And Penny Goss]

They must or it could not be a Steinway <O:((
Joe Goss RPT
Mother Goose Tools
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Ilvedson" <ilvey@sbcglobal.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: Strate Mate...Was Remedial String Leveling


> But Steinway doesn't make their own agraffes...do they?
>
> David Ilvedson, RPT
> Pacifica, California
>
>
> ----- Original message ----------------------------------------
> From: A440A@aol.com
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Received: 10/23/2005 11:49:21 AM
> Subject: Re: Strate Mate...Was Remedial String Leveling
>
>
> >Joe writes:
>
> ><< The tool will take away most of the non-parallelness of the strings,
but at
>
> >the same time removes some of the elasticity of the string, limiting the
>
> >amount of movement available to compensate for misdrilled agraffes. A
catch
>
> >22, Save some work, make your work harder >>
>
> >        It is possible to lower a string, too.  This often is needed with
the
> >Steinway agraffe sections.  (It can't be rocket science to drill the
agraffes
> >evenly, and to tap the plate at 90 degrees to the string plane! And if it
is,
> >S&S should hire the rocket scientists that seem to live at Yamaha,
Schimmell,
> >Boston, and others! ) It blows my mind that such a high-profile
instrument
> >should suffer from such a basic foundational sloppiness.
> >     A steel rod with a saw kerf in the side near the end, wide enough to
fit
> >over the string, can be used to put a slight kink in the string downward.
I
> >have done this and found there to be no noticeable effect on that strings
> >inharmonicity, tone,  or "voice".
> >        I use a four inch long 3/8" rod with a saw kerf about 1/4" from
the
> >end.  I file the rod into a square that is, ultimately, about 1/4" on a
side.
> >You may need to use two hack-saw blades stacked together to ge the kerf
wide
> >enough.  I file the rod flat before making the cut and after I have the
right
> >notch cut in it, I file the uncut side until it can fit between the
strings of
> >a trichord.  It takes pretty good steel to have the strength to bend
.045"
> >wire without breaking.  O-1 properly hardened after shaping is good
enough.
> >Smaller diameter wire can be kinked more easily with a smaller kerf.
Coupled with
> >the tool to lift the wire, neither needs to make an extreme bend in order
to
> >level the string.
> >      Smooth all the edges so there is no nick placed in the string, and
> >round the bottom so that the occasional contact with the plate doesn't
dig a small
> >pit ,(damhiK) in the finish.
> >   Hope this heresy helps.
>
>
> >Ed Foote RPT
> >http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
> >www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
> >
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