Hello folks, Thought I'd share this photo. I ruined a perfectly straight hammer line on a 1898 S&S A. It was the most dramatic hammer line problem I have encountered. I moved the top hammer of the first capo region about 3/16" toward the capo, and the lowest hammer of the top capo region about 1/8" toward the capo. For both areas I thought I'd taper the hammer line all the way to the other end. But as it turned out I only needed to start the taper (according to my ear) at the half-way point (G5 up to the break, and D7 down to the break). This area had always sounded funky and I was trying to find out why. I couldn't believe how much improvement this made. I know that these hammers and shanks were put on about 10 or 12 years ago, but I don't know if the originals were hung straight or not. I wonder when S&S figured out they needed to grind the capo out toward the bridge. There was plenty of room on the capo to just grind it, rather than have to recast the whole capo bar. Alan -- Alan McCoy, RPT Eastern Washington University amccoy at mail.ewu.edu 509-359-4627 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: S&S A Hammer Line.jpg Type: application/octet-stream Size: 184627 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20080211/067e021a/attachment-0001.obj
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