Hammer travel experiment

[Thomas Cole]

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Julia,

Sounds good. Nothing wrong with making your job easier. I like to start 
with installing dampers only at first, getting the damper heads aligned 
to the strings and damper felt installed before putting in the hammers.

Tom Cole

Alpha88x@aol.com wrote:

> Greetings,
>
>                       I am working on my old upright, whom I call 
> "Becky" she's all apart hammer/butts and sticker type wippens; all out 
> for new leather, felts etc.(not new hammers, though)
>
>                       My experiment is that I am putting the action 
> back in the piano without it's wippen/stickers and I am going to 
> travel and square the hammers, FIRST, one, by one, as I put them back 
> in, before the wippen mechanisms go in. Then I am going to take the 
> action back out and put in the wippens.
>
>                 I figure the hammers will be squared and travelled 
> much easier this way,  as opposed to putting everything back on the 
> action  THEN, having to take certain hammers/butt out, in order to do 
> travel & squaring and having to work with the wippens' jacks and stuff 
> in the way. I think its a good idea. Could there be something wrong 
> with this? Is there something I didn't think of?
>
> Julia Gottchall,
> Reading, PA     
>

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