Brilliant! Laura On Mar 22, 2012, at 7:13 PM, Albert Picknell wrote: > Hi Joe > > If you're already carrying a voicing block and a 15-cm steel ruler in your tool kit, you can either modify your existing voicing block or make a new one, and combined with the ruler, you'll have a slick string height gauge without having to find space for it in your kit. > > Attached are photos of the one I have. I didn't make it myself; credit for that goes to Mark Cramer, who evidently made this one for Ted Sambell. I hope Ted's not reading this 'cause he might want it back! > > The voicing block is exactly 10 cm (100 mm) wide. On one side there's a dado that's just wide enough and deep enough for your 6-inch (15 cm) ruler to sit in. Embedded in the wood near one end of the dado is a rare-earth magnet. Place the ruler in the dado with the "zero" end protruding, and the magnet holds it in place (you have to make sure the end of the ruler is exactly at the zero point). Place the block on the keybed, and slide the ruler up until it touches the strings. Read the ruler at the edge of the block, add 100 mm, and you've got your string height. The edge of the block is blackened a little with a sharpie to make it easier to read. > > I suppose if you prefer to carry a wider voicing block, you could make it 150 mm wide, and then add 150 mm to the measurement. > > Just a suggestion... > Bert > > --- On Wed, 3/21/12, Joseph Garrett <joegarrett at earthlink.net> wrote: > >> From: Joseph Garrett <joegarrett at earthlink.net> >> Subject: Re: [pianotech] string height measurements in MM >> To: "pianotech" <pianotech at ptg.org> >> Received: Wednesday, March 21, 2012, 7:27 PM >> Hello, >> >> Would anyone be able to recommend a good tool for measuring >> the string >> heights in mm?-Is there any digital ones nowadays?... >> My gauge is the only thing i use that is not metric, and i >> find it very >> confusing! >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Lewis, >> PianoTek has a Tape Measure that can be locked in position >> and has a window >> to read Inside measurements. I've been using this device for >> years, >> (different maker, but same tool), with excellent results. >> the other types >> are really not very accurate. I back those measurements up >> with the trick >> of setting the hammers to just "block" on the strings of the >> 1st and last >> of each section. Kind of goes along with "Measure Twice - >> Cut Once" idea.<G> >> Regards, >> Joe >> >> >> Joe Garrett, R.P.T. >> Captain of the Tool Police >> Squares R I >> > <P1040019.JPG><P1040020.JPG><P1040021.JPG>
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