Look at www.ptg.org/blog/ I have some pictures of the Steingraeber and Scott Jones stuff. Also David stanwood had an interesting invention. The post are called Invention at the convention and may have scrolled off a page or two buy now. On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Ron Koval <drwoodwind at hotmail.com> wrote: > I must have reached some kind of new threshold at the conference in Grand > Rapids; I looked around at all the new tools and didn't feel like I needed > to buy one.... Strange. > > A couple of new things did catch my eye - There was more there, but these > two were memorable for me: > > From Scott Jones, the inventer of the pitch lock clips, the TouchRail for > lightening heavy actions. Essentially a new custom rail to replace the key > upstop rail. A small spring for each key can be used to individually adjust > the touch. I bought an octave section to be used in for demonstration. > http://pitchlock.com/pages/primary_pages/touchrail.html > I hope to be trying this out soon! > > From Steven James, the grand piano muffler. This one seems to work really > well! Simple installation requires pulling the dampers out and installing > onto the damper rail. On/off requires sliding three little levers, one for > each section. > http://www.grandpianomuffler.com/Site/Grand_Piano_Muffler.html > > What did you see in Grand Rapids that caught your eye? > > Ron Koval > chicagoland > > ------------------------------ > Windows Live™ Hotmail®: Celebrate the moment with your favorite sports > pics. Check it out.<http://www.windowslive.com/Online/Hotmail/Campaign/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_QA_HM_sports_photos_072009&cat=sports> > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ronald Berry Piano Service Indianapolis, IN 317-255-8213 ron at berrypiano.com http://www.berrypiano.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ask me about Healthy Chocolate! http://www.berrygoodchocolate.com Public Key http://www.berrypiano.com/key/Ron_Berry.txt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090725/a5ea9dbe/attachment.htm>
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