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String Nibblers
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 24 พ.ย. 2007
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Re-shape Hammers
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Re-shape Petrof piano hammers (feat. Liana Gheorghita) Music Academy International Inc. (link below) www.youtube.com/@musicacademyinternationali4534
After Ring in pianos
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Many pianos need the lower tenor and bass muted in the non-speaking section to eliminate unwanted overtones.
Replace Wippen Cords
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Many older pianos used thin cloth cords to secure springs in the wippen. Often times replacing these will extend the use of a set wippens that are otherwise in good condition.
Keytop Removal
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Removing piano keytops with a router jig and a tablesaw jig.
Mr Rogers Piano
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Mr Rogers Piano / Fred Rogers donated his 9 foot Lester grand to Rollins College in Winter Park FL. Before going to the College the piano was restored by Berg Piano
Steinway Hammer Strike Position
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This video demonstrates a method of setting the hammer strike position in a Steinway B grand piano to improve the attack and sustain.
Adirondack Balloon Festival
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Balloon flight, Adirondack Balloon festival, balloonist, Aeronauts, hot air balloons.
Chickering Stringing
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Stringing a Chickering 123, Stringing a grand piano, How to string a piano,
Chickering grand piano pinblock installation
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One of the unique designs for the Chickering pinblock. This one has only two pieces but still has the step where it mates to the plate.
Does it sound better after restauration? I wonder if the VC series have a different string length and scale, compared to the 200.
Definitely sounded better
Loved the video! Thanks for showing us the "lungs" of this breathing instrument. You brought it back to life!
Glad you enjoyed it!
You are talented. I just bought a Chickering, so this was especially fascinating for me.
Thank you so much!
Amazing work!
Thanks a lot!
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1st 10 seconds
Great job! 👌 Was that chalk you put into the tuning pin holes?
It is talc from a pool table supply house. Sometimes I use talc in the hole or occasionally violin rosin on the pin depending on the need. And many times nothing is put in the hole or on the pin.
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Many thanks!!
All looks typical - but at 2:40, what is the lubricant used on the bridge?
That is liquid graphite
@@dberg001 I figured as much. Thanks!
Hello String Nibblers, I am a piano tech in Massachusetts. What is the tool that you used to clean the glue off of the hammer shank. I'd like to get one of those. Thanks, Joe
Hammer shank reducer istore.schaffpiano.com/ecommerce/index.html?searchValue=Shank%20cleaner
Thanks, I did not know they sold this. I will get one of these tools. Looks like a snap to use.@@dberg001
Great info!. I suspected of something like that on my YAMAHA U3H but now I am decided to check it in detail!. Thanks!!!
Sounds beautiful after! Like a true steinway!!! Question: about the touchweight does it change after moving the hammers?
The touch weight would change but by so little it probably wouldn’t be noticeable. If one is strict about that you just measure and change. Better to have a good sound and a gram heavier or lighter than lousy sound with perfectly even touch weight although touch weight will never be perfectly even just like an orchestra will never be in perfect tune. “The pleasure of variety!!”
Grateful for the mute button.
Really ;)
What a beautiful piano!!!!
My grand has some prominent overtones when the mid-range notes are played. Seems like it is from the high notes which don't have dampers. How to quell the overtones in this case?
Try damping the suspected areas with felt or cloth to see if it helps. Just behind the bridge. It may be coming from the speaking length in high treble where there are no dampers. It is normal for that area to ring while playing in lower registers. This adds to each pianos overtone series. You may have a very active board and bridge system. If muting behind the bridge doesn’t help you could try tuning to a different frequency to see if it changes anything. The board may react differently to a different pitch. You may be blessed with a perfect sonorous storm of overtones. Some pianos are very vigorous.
@@dberg001 Yes. I suspect it is from the speaking length of the high notes. I find it too prominent and sometimes disturbing. It’s even more prominent in recordings. Let me try the felt first. Thanks a lot.
How did you attach the handle to the action board?. Directly with wood screws? or inserts first and then machine screws? Is this something done commonly? I have a very hard time pulling out the action ; it seems to me the handle would greatly facilitate that process, but I ma afraid to ruin the board
With wood screws. In my opinion, piano actions should come from the factory with built in handles. The need to pull an action out hundreds to thousands of times during its lifetime is really a no brainer for designers and is a major bad for all makers. Many pianos from the 1800’s had built in handles. So much for progress.
@@dberg001 Thank you very much for replying. What you say makes all sense. I think I am going to take the plunge and install a couple of inserts in my action so that I can use machine screws instead of wood screws. This should make it so I can attach and detach the handle any number of times without the fear of stripping the wood. If you somehow provide me with your email address I'll send you pictures of the finished job. .Thank you again
I apply wax to underside of keyframe and keybed and buff to gloss. I use Two handles made of key frame felt. The action glides in and out effortlessly with minimal effort
@@rogershaffer1 Great idea !! I will give it a shot too.
Mail@bergpiano.com
Nice video. I would use black nylon electrical lacing cord. It will last much, much longer than cotton cord, and it won't absorb moisture, rot, or get stiff/brittle.
what diameter do you suggest ?
@@W-HealthPianoExercises Nylon lacing cord doesn't have a diameter, it is by width and thickness. Let me find you a part number.
@@paulromsky9527 Thank you for your kind reply. Please forgive me if I used wrong terminology. I guess what I was after to is any parameter (thickness/width or whatever) useful for buying cord replacement. Indeed I have a vertical piano with some of those flange cords broken (I also read this is a very common problem for instance on the Yamaha U1). I read that those cords should be about 44 mm long (?) but I am really wondering about the type and width /thickness of cord I need to buy to make a durable replacement. Thank you again very much for your expertise and any suggestions 🙂
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What is the glue, is it just PVC wood glue? You mentioned non drip?
Titebond no-run no-drip wood glue
Why don't pianos have a thin wooden strap with felt on it that simply rests on those parts of the strings and attaches to the plate (frame/harp) to keep it in place?
I am a new student studying for my RPT certification. I know it's not practical, but could one cut a large piece of felt that fits into that whole non-speaking section so that when weaved into those strings they dampen that entire non-speaking portion of the strings, thereby letting no harmonics through. Or are the non-speaking parts of strings relied upon to increase overall harmonic tone in a piano?
Do a search on the PTG chat page and you should get all kinds of helpful counsel and answers
Very good job..thanks!!
Thanks Daniel, your videos are always helpful!
Very good❤
Spettacolo❤
very nice tips! I'm getting a grand with almost exactly same issue as payment for moving a new one for the client.
Nice! This is essentially what I'm going to be doing with the new Kauai portable digital piano I bought. Sid you find it hard to get an accoustic piano that fit the full digital keyboard case? Also, Is there a way to have the key cover still and be functional?
Nice job, Dan!!!
😂bellissimo 😊
beautiful!! i would find a piano like this..i am in Rome!!
please let me know a piano like this,!! this old piano have great sound... I know one like this, much similar and have a very good sound!.. but it's old too...
Very informative. Thanks. Why are piano plates always painted GOLD?
Did this instrument come from the factory like this? I was under the impression that their jigs for hammer lines were made to account for these slight variations. Does this mean that the capo bar was cast a bit off? Could the variations be as a result of the hammers themselves rather than the hammer line? I’ve been working on Steinways for 45 years……still mystified by the things that can go wrong.
Wonderful, powerful rich sound from these old upright grands. Great to see all the action. Glad you are fixing this one. I just bought a 1902 Schaaf upright 58" ( Chicago). Love the big uprights.
Thanks for the tour thru your great concert grand. Tremendous sound. I just bought a 1902 Schaaf. Love the old uprights.
magnifico.❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
Believe it or not, this is my Aunt's piano. We had a family friend who had recently passed away and he had this piano. My aunt had inherited the piano and sent it to you to be fixed. When she saw your video, she started crying. Thank you for doing this for her.
You are very welcome! It was a pleasure working on this wonderful instrument.
Why didn't you use new dowels mounted in the cast iron frame after removing the old dowels and drilling through all the elements at one angle?
1:13 so over here, the wood stick thing will sort of "scratch" the round cotton part, so after 8000 times or 100,000 times or 500,000 times of such scratching, doesn't the round thing need a replacement because part of it is scratched off or became thin
0:48 is that red thingy magnetic? It is like, "I have gone through the 'let off' (escapement) process and I need to come back, and I need a little help from this magnetic friend to pull me back"
this probably is acoustic, not digital, because there is a hammer with cotton hitting a metal bar which is supposedly a metal string, and a damper on top of that metal bar which is to dampen the string
0:47 is this precisely showing what the "let-off", also known as "escapement" mechanism is? It is like one of the universe big mysteries solved
Would it have killed you to maybe add a little text explaining what you were doing and how you got your results, rather than a keystone cops version of harp refinishing?
Sounds like a high quality model D after the changes were made. Very informative.
Seems to me that the piano would have to be level along the string alignment or that you would need a level with a bubble adjustment capstan to adjust the bubble to “level” on the speaking length before you placed it on the back scale. If not then the downbearing angle won’t be controlled or uniform in the areas where you want it to be 1/2°.
which primer do you use?
Acme FP301 etch primer with FT 302 reducer
Thank you for sharing this. Beautifully done & great help.
You are good technician why do you waste your time
It's a waste on time unless they pay you lots of money
This is worth piano I ever worked on.
woow..... i would play and tuning piano like this!! great sound... like one of my school!! old and vintage sound!
I would be grateful if you or one of the commenters can contact me. I've acquired on of these (Prince & Co. pt 1845), it appears to be in very intact shape, except no sound. The bellows and wind chest to exterior touch feel intact, except that I can see/feel that the (papered canvas?) top back edge of the wind chest is unglued from the top back of the box, thus letting air flow out there. Wondering if hide glue should be attempted here? The airchest seems very intact except some surface wear on the corners, and wondering if I should reinforce this with some historically appropriate material (varnish or glue? Paper as it seems to be coated with? I hesitate to do anything that makes it less flexible and needs to be undone for a proper fix). Thanks very much for any advice!