Hang'n dem Hammers

[Isaac OLEG]

I use that method too, and it helps a lot.

But papering and burning remains always !

Isaac O.

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : pianotech-bounces@ptg.org 
> [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]De la
> part de Jon Page
> Envoye : lundi 30 septembre 2002 14:37
> A : Pianotech
> Objet : Re: Hang'n dem Hammers
> 
> 
> Travelling before hanging hammers is not that difficult if 
> you place a 
> strip of wood across the tops to aid in their return.
> 
> A handy procedure to get the replaced hammers aligned is to 
> make a story 
> stick.  I have a long thin rail to mark the
> string cuts for indexing the hammers. One end is notched to 
> fit/index onto 
> a square and the square is braced to the
> end of the frame or stack with masking tape.  Masking tape 
> is also run 
> along the rail to place the marks at the string
> cuts because it is easier to remove the tape than to erase 
> all the marks.
> 
> Once all the hammers are rehung, travelled and burned-in 
> the square and 
> rail is used to get the hammers aligned to the
> marks.  This gets the hammers in place with minimal spacing 
> to do in the 
> piano. It certainly get them close enough so that
> the wippens can be spaced to the knuckles.
> Regards,
> 
> Jon Page,   piano technician
> Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.
> mailto:jonpage@attbi.com
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