spacing the Steinways(was sumpin else)

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Mark writes: 
<<where would the two pieces of brown paper be placed to move the
hammers to the right without incurring travelling?  I'm having a hard
time picturing that for some reason.  >>

Looking down on the flange from above,  place a short piece of shimming paper 
under the right side of the flange.  It will go from the front(near) edge to 
the middle, ( I call this "papering the corners"), place another piece under 
the left side, it will extend from the middle to the back.  These two 
together will "twist" the flange sideways without changing the traveling. 
What you are doing is changing the axis of the flange as it relates to the 
rail.  Steinway is the only brand that allows this, since their flanges are 
fitting on two dimensions with their scalloped shapes.  Papering the corners 
is the only permanent way I have found to space them.  
     If you only paper the front right corner, the shank will move to the 
right, but begin traveling to the left, so papering diagonal corners makes 
the spacing change but leaves the traveling alone.   
   YOu can also get creative.  If the hammer is traveling to the left, but 
still hitting the string correctly, you can paper the front side of the 
flange on the left and the shank will space over to the left, but travel to 
the right.  
  If the hammer is traveling to the left, and is hitting to the left of the 
strings, just paper the entire lenght of the left side of the flange and the 
hammer will travel to the right,even though the spacing, at rest, is left 
alone.  
Hope this helps, 
Ed Foote