[pianotech] Equipment Purchase Help

[David Ilvedson]

What is amazing about the flange shields is you have to loosen the flange screw to install the shield.   Much easier than continuing on to disconnecting the bridle strap and removing the part and repinning...  '-]

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: david at piano.plus.com
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 2/18/2009 2:21:33 AM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Equipment Purchase Help


>Oh yes Ron! The spring bushing clamps! An early purchase of mine that I've
>never used!  What was the false beat suppressor, and how was it supposed
>to work? I always looked at the string stretcher, rather doubtfully, in
>the catalogue, but never bought one.

>Mike, what a theoretically nifty yet simultaneously horrible idea the
>flange shields sound. I'm happy to say I never bought a key bushing
>tightener, though it's the kind of thing I might well have fallen for when
>I started out. Reblitz even shows its use.

>A little bottle of "Key White" liquid, I recall as another waste of money.

>Best regards,

>David.


>>String stretcher, with auxiliary soundboard wheel. Key bushing
>>spring clamps. Aluminum tuning fork. False beat suppressor.
>>Soundboard toggles. Plastic key bushing inserts. Hammer shank
>>repair sleeves. With items already mentioned, all good things
>>to not have in your junk drawer thirty years from now.

>>Ron N