Our December meeting will be our annual Holiday Party, to be held on the first Tuesday of the month, December 4, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. at:

Sole' Restaurant
2754 Oceanside Road
Oceanside, New York 11572
(516) 764-3218

The full-course dinner is $39 per person (including tax and tip) with a cash bar. Please send your reservations and payment to our treasurer:

Paul Keogler
c/o Dancing Ivories
11 Washington Avenue
Bay Shore, NY 11706

We hope everyone will plan to attend. Proper casual attire is recommended. Directions follow on page 3 of this newsletter.

Here is a trick that many of us already use, but for those who do not, you may find it very helpful. Sometime we encounter a grand piano in which the tri-chord damper felts in the tenor section do not lift adequately up from the strings. This can be caused by late timing of the damper levers (regulated too high above the key tail felts), or by damper felts which have been replaced with tri-chords that are too long. Setting a temperament with this situation can be nearly impossible, as the strings are continually muted. A simple remedy for this problem is to keep two clothes-pins in your toolcase. Manually lift the two damper heads of the interval that you are tuning, and clamp with the clothes-pins. The clothes-pins wll keep the dampers well above strings and prevent them from dropping, thereby giving you the needed sustain to properly tune the strings.