Alan Try scraping the hammer with your fingernail, and see if it will soften up a bit. If it does, get out you sandpaper paddle, smooth the surface, and then needle the crown. Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician Honolulu, HI Author of The Business of Piano Tuning available from Potter Press www.pianotuning.com -----Original Message----- From: Alan Barnard <pianotuner at embarqmail.com> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 4:42 pm Subject: Sore Thumb E4 To all with long experience .... Old Harvard upright. Hammers?a little?flat from wear, not going to shape them at this time. Piano tuned, Action "basic regulated", i.e., key height, blow, lost motion, let-off, checking, and aftertouch. Play up and down the keys, and E4 is much, MUCH, MUCH louder than it's neighbors on a similar blow. Hammer doesn't look any different than neighbors, strings are not particularly level, but neither are the neighbors. I didn't think to swap hammers while I was there, but will be returning to work more on this piano. Whataythinky'all? What am I missing? Alan Barnard Salem, MO P.S. It's not a little louder than other tenor notes it's a LOT louder. Did I mention that? ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20071010/4312b899/attachment.html
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