English word for that?

[David Nereson]

My German dictionaries have "schieben" (to slide, push, shove) and
Schieber, but not "schiebern."    I think most technicians in this country
say the hammer "travels" when it takes a path other than perpendicular to
the plane of the strings.  We say we "travel" the hammer shanks, but
really, we are "de-traveling" them, or just making them travel in the
desired direction.  The words "wander", "diverge", or "travel askew" could
also be used.  Less educated folk might say they "go crooked."
(aarrgghh!)
        --David Nereson, RPT

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org]On
Behalf Of Gregor _
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 12:28 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: English word for that?

I went to the Frankfurt music fair yesterday and scrolled through the
Piano
Nomenclatur book by Schimmel. There I found a German word which I never
heard of, the verb "schiebern". I know what it means, but I usually say
"to
remove schieber" (schieber as a noun). Funny: in that book there was no
english word for that, the only one translation was the Italian one. It
means the following:

When you move a few hammers to the strings by hand and you see that one
hammer has a left-hand (or right hand) twist so that the middle of the
hammer does not hit the middle of the 3 strings, one should regulate that.
I
mean that the hammer makes not only a forward, but also a sideward
movement
("schieber"). In this case one takes a piece of paper and adjusts it under
one side of the hammer butt flange. Correction tape for type writers does
a
good job for that. The result is that the hammer is on the correct course
again. Once I visited the Renner factory and I saw some guys who did that
job in piecework. I never so that job done so extremely quick and
accurate.

How do you say it on English?

Gregor

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