[CAUT] upright plucking

[Willem Blees]

Speaking of phing..pck..pluug, I have never seen any discussion on 
this list about mating upright hammers, much less vocing them. I just 
did one of the practice room uprights, and thought I would give it a 
try. I shaped the hammers, and I thought they looked pretty good. But 
just for the heck of it, I tried plucking strings. I gently pushed the 
hammer up to the string, stepped on the damer pedal, and sure enough, 
on about a dozen or so notes, I could hear one of the strings ringing. 
In the upper treble, where there isn't enough room to pluck above the 
hammer, I used a thin screw driver to gently rake accross the strings. 
It didn't take too much sanding to straighten the striking surface 
out, and I tried to get down under the hammer as muchas possible to 
try to keep a round head. 

Comments

Wim 

Willem Blees, RPT
Piano Tuner/Technician
School of Music
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL USA