I can’t speak for Ron but sometimes I do and sometimes I don’t. It depends on the angle leaving the capo bar. For example, on those old B’s with the removable counterbearing plates (the ones that use individual round understring felts) I often don’t change them because the steepness of the angle leaving the capo bar is adequate for the length. On other pianos where the angle is less acute I do and then move the bar forward or make it taller depending on how the shelf accommodates the new counterbearing bars. Also, I’ve changed the counterbearing area on pianos where I’ve kept the original boards and they still required the strike line modification. So I’d say that’s not it, the counterbearing area doesn’t seem to account for the difference. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of William Truitt Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 7:56 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Hammer strike line. Was-----Yamaha Hammer Suggestion A little curve ball question to go along with this: Aren’t you and Ron and a few others getting rid of the front duplexes and replacing in with a single bar with a shorter length between the v bar and the string rest? There won’t be the kind of energy losses with that configuration as there are with the duplexes, which would also contribute to an improvement in tone in the killer section. Will -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100207/a64141a5/attachment.htm>
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