This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Are you sure it's a soft v-bar? How much material did the stringer take off? Is it possible he actually filed through the hardened section? = How long and what is the angle of the counterbearing section? Is the counterbearing area flat or sloped? Can you manage to insert something = to increase the deflection angle and shorten and detune the segment? You = might experiment by inserting a cut piece of brass half round or half oval underneath this section to see if that doesn't help. Have you looked at = the v bar with a mirror to examine its shape? I would certainly try that = before considering torching the v bar. =20 =20 David Love davidlovepianos@comcast.net=20 -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On = Behalf Of ed440@mindspring.com Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 7:22 PM To: Pianotech List Subject: Re: v-bar/capo repair =20 Did the rebuilder file it correctly? Paul Revenko-Jones has a fine class on this. Maybe he could send you his handout sheets. You might also try moving the strike point on those notes. Ed S. -----Original Message-----=20 From: Barbara Richmond=20 Sent: Feb 28, 2006 6:13 PM=20 To: Pianotech=20 Subject: v-bar/capo repair=20 Howdy, =20 Back to the 8' Seiler grand. Sorry if I'm starting to sound like a = broken record. Here's the story: I serviced this piano when it was new. Not = long into its life, it developed a noisy duplex at the low end of the treble section. I muted it off. I tuned it for a few years, I moved away... =20 I moved back. In the meantime, the piano was restrung. I started = servicing it again a year after it was delivered. 9 months into servicing it, the noisy duplex returned in the exact same spot--but add another note. I freaked out (not in front of the customer), the customer freaked out, = too (not in front of me). I contacted the rebuilder who said he filed the = capo. He and I came to the conclusion (whether we are correct or not) that it = is a case of soft cast iron. I looked up hardening cast iron in the = archives. To do that would mean taking the plate out of the piano and that's not = an option. I'm convinced if I refile the capo, the same thing is going to happen again. =20 =20 I know there are some pianos that have some sort of rod installed at the v-bar. Is it possible to do the same with this piano at the capo? Has anyone done it? Do you have detailed instructions? Will someone hold = my hand?.....Please? =20 Thanks, =20 Barbara Richmond, RPT ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/22/94/9f/3d/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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