Ron: I was working on an "L" here with a bad section in the "killer octave" that I wanted to help. I used vice grips to find where I'd like to put some weight and they really helped. Unfortunately, where the weights need to go I can't get a drill because of the keybed extension and crossblock. Any bright ideas??? dave David M. Porritt dporritt at smu.edu -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ron Nossaman Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 8:14 PM To: Pianotech List Subject: Hail and fare well, was Re: Bridge Pins & Nega Bearing > Yes & now your'e in Witchita with Twisters a headin your way. > I'll have the earthquakes please. > Dale Ah yes, but we can watch 'em go by without actually participating - unlike with hurricanes and earthquakes. Once again, we've missed being sucked up into the sky for another day. Speaking of natural disasters, I left this morning in the first pounding hailstorm of the day to try to make the honking low tenor and high bass in a relatively new Baldwin vertical tolerable for the owner. A nasty low tenor in this piano. To antagonize an already under ribbed soundboard and under extended tenor bridge, they actually hung that low tenor on a cantilever. I couldn't believe it. At least there were some wrapped strings down there, or it likely would have been even worse. I had brought a selection of brass weights to see how far I could get with the mass loading my previous vise grip tests had indicated was worth a try. With both the low tenor, and the entire bass bridge on cantilevers, attaching the weights to the back side of the soundboard wasn't as practical as I'd have liked. But then, it's a vertical, right? Drilling between strings on the bridge face, I screwed on different combinations until I ended up with a 165g weight to the low tenor, and a 150g weight to the high bass. It looked really stupid, but it helped. This was the ugliest fix with the least ugly sound I could make with what I had, so I stopped there and did the 50 cent pitch raise and tuning. Yea, I know. Why didn't I do the pitch raise the first trip so it would be settled down some by now. Probably because I'm an idiot, as it was certainly obvious on this trip what I should have done the first time. It's always SO helpful to notice the obvious after the fact... Oh well, I hope she likes it. Ron N
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