List, Don't you just love "tooners" who create business for you with the poor quality of work they do? I enjoy being able to make the customer happy and, of course, making the extra money but I just wish there weren't people "out there" in my profession who still make this type of job necessary. What makes it even worse (to me) is that it was done by someone I know. I'm just finishing up a Steinway L which "supposedly" had new hammers (they aren't) installed less than a year ago. They're too yellowed (not bad, but not new white) to be new and they've been filed poorly with ridges left on the strike point and on the back side. They look like a half-way decent set that came off another piano which *did* have new hammers put on and then reused by pinning the old shanks and hammers to the old flanges. The traveling was non-existent. I would guess that 98% of the traveling was wrong. Almost every hammer that moved wrong had paper on the wrong side. I had to remove that and then re-travel. It was almost as if someone had traveled the hammers to try and make them hit all three strings (most were not) instead of in a straight line. After all that, a LOT of burning, of course. Then hammer filing (again) because most hammers won't be hitting the strings in the same place they were. Then of course, fitting to the strings, re-regulation, etc., etc. HOW DO PEOPLE GET AWAY WITH S***** WORK LIKE THIS? And still another action coming in next week with the same type of problems. Well, off my soapbox and back to work. Avery _____________________________________ Avery Todd, RPT Moores School of Music University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-4893 713-743-3226 atodd@uh.edu _____________________________________
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