Questions

kam544@flash.net kam544@flash.net
Sat, 16 Dec 2000 21:13:51 -0600


>...is there some
>type of jig that can be made so you know exactly where the new strings
>will go? Usually, I line them up with the grooves in the old hammers,
>maybe a jig would be better.
>Jim Turner

An alternative approach, Jim, would be filing and reshaping the old
hammers, assuming there is enough reasonable felt left to do such a thing,
rather than attempting to line the existing grooves.  Lining up the
existing grooves in a grand doesn't sound like much fun to me.

Keith McGavern
Registered Piano Technician
Oklahoma Chapter 731
Piano Technicians Guild
USA




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