I agree Ed. Nothing like the personal touch of someone who cares to do a good handfit job. On the otherhand, if you are not capable of this, then sending shanks and hammers in to the factory can yield very good results. Still... if you are routined at hanging hammers, you can insure as perfect a fit as possible by doing things on site with the piano handy. RicB A440A@aol.com wrote: > > Greetings, > I have some serious reservations about using pre-hung hammers for > STeinways. I have just finished installing a new action on a 1965 model B and > pre-hung hammers would have been a disaster. Why? Well, the strike point for > optimum tone on this piano varies by section, requiring a hanging distance of 3 mm > shorter at the top break! Had I just hung everything at 130 mm, this section > would have been dead. > Maybe if a brand has control over their process, this sort of variability > wouldn't be a factor, but these are the hand-made "standard" of the piano > world but they don't lend themselves to standard assemblies. G0 figure. > Regards, > > Ed Foote RPT > http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html > www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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