At 20:36 3/2/2006, you wrote: >Mark wrote: But note that if you move the bass end up or down, the seating >of the dampers will be affected, due to the angle of the strings away from >vertical. > >Could this be why on some old pianos the hammers in the bass section are >grossly out of line? You occasionally run across old pianos with bass >hammers consistently missing one of the bicords and hitting the neighbor >string. It has to be something in the case/keybed shifting or settling, but >what? The action posts settling makes sense. I'll have to check that out on >the next one I run across. > >Dean In some cases, action sideways shift may have occurred. What I find in most cases, however, is that the hammers are truncated from wear and either have three (or four) string grooves and/or are overcentering. YMMV Conrad Hoffsommer Early to rise: early to bed; Makes a man healthy, and socially dead.
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