Hi Phil The upright part of this exercise is rather a new venture & both times on Steinway uprights which received new butts & shanks. Knowing that the problem children notes are always in the same area/octave 5 & 6, I just left the shanks a bit long & starting experimenting. It really helps to have a nice tight dry shank to hammer fit so positiong for optimal sound can be done without glue. Make sense. We are currently rebuilding a beautiful 1904 Fischer upright & I will pay more attention tonally to it the killer ocatave than I would have in the past. Since Steinways are the most common piano we work on It is these I am most familiar with & am prepared for this up front. However we are completing a BB Mason with a mild but V shaped strike line between the first & second capo are. IE notes 70 ish are the closest to the player but only by 2 to 3 MM. Dale Erwin Dale... I read the request for your hammer positioning method. I understand how you remove and reglue grand hammers down the shanks for optimal tone (I was at your PA PTG class), but what is your method on a vertical where the shank holes don't go all the way through the hammer molding? Do you test each hammer in the piano, cutting the shanks as you go? Thanks, Philip Jamison West Chester, PA ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070717/5143ab2f/attachment.html
This PTG archive page provided courtesy of Moy Piano Service, LLC