Steinway K Double flange

[Ajay Mistry]

 --- Tom Driscoll <tomtuner@comcast.net> wrote: > 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org
> [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On
> Behalf Of Ajay Mistry
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 2:13 PM
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Steinwway K Double flange
> 
> Hello list have taken a Steinway K upright for
> repairs
> its action is of type having double flange ie hammer
> &
> damper both attached to the same flange on either
> side
> with two center pins . I am having problem in
> setting
> the hammer travel when the hammer is going right & I
> put the travel paper to correct it the hammer
> becomes
> straight but the damper also moves left .
>       Does anyone out there have had experience for
> setting the hammer travel while not disturbing the
> damper alignment.
>                  Also I am going to install both new
> hammer heads as well as damper felts should I work
> simultaneously or fix hammers first & dampers later
> or
> dampers first & hammers later.
>       Thanks a lot in advance.
>                                     Ajay Mistry.
> 
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> Ajay Mistry
> 
>
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> Ajay,
> 	I would take the dampers off the flanges by
> loosening the
> screw-plate, and then paper the flanges to travel
> the new shanks before
> installing the hammers. You'll have better access to
> the flanges without
> the damper levers in the way.
> 	Hang the hammers then install the damper levers.
> Bend the damper
> wires to align the heads to the strings, then glue
> the damper felt on. 
> 	One issue I've had with older Steinway damper
> levers is that the
> wires are very heavy and not very malleable. The
> levers can break when
> you bend the wires to align to the strings. I
> sometimes grab the lever
> with parallel pliers where the wire enters to avoid
> splitting the lever.
> 
> 	Replacing the levers is an option but expensive
> .There is also a
> good argument for replacing the butts and Whippens
> but that is another
> topic.
> 	Tom Driscoll RPT
> Hi Tom but this model is not of a screw plate type
but is of type where the center pin passes thru the
hole bored in the part itself. Please do confirm on
this thats the reason that after placing the hammer
travel paper under the flange the the alignment of the
damper is also changing.
         Thanks a lot.	 
>                                  Ajay Mistry.
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