Importance of the staple: was hammer felt (Renner Blues)

Jason Kanter jkanter@rollingball.com
Sun, 22 Sep 2002 07:26:08 -0700


Staples into wood are very primitive technology anyway.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kent Swafford" <kswafford@earthlink.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 7:07 AM
Subject: Re: Importance of the staple: was hammer felt (Renner Blues)


> 
> On Sunday, September 22, 2002, at 07:17 AM, Farrell wrote:
> 
> > My info from several classes at conventions is that staples are only 
> > there because "the consumer expects them".
> 
> Maybe. Earlier this summer I came to a Steinway L with a set of Ronsen 
> hammers less than a year old. The hammer felt had popped loose from one 
> side of the molding of a single hammer. When I removed the offending 
> hammer from the action, I found that the staple had been pulled out of 
> the molding, but that the staple had never been installed properly; the 
> staple had been bent up and one leg of the staple had never reached the 
> wood of the molding. It just made me wonder, had both legs of the 
> staple made it to the wood, would it have been enough to keep the felt 
> from popping loose? Was it just a coincidence that the felt with the 
> bad staple came loose?
> 
> Kent Swafford
> 
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