Grand Cleaning

[Barbara Richmond]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Barbara Richmond 
To: Pianotech List 
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 6:03 PM
Subject: Re: Grand Cleaning


There is likely to be a change/improvement in voicing--improvement being subjective and one had better explain the possible results tonally/voicing wise.  Reshaping would make the hammers look cleaner, though.   

Shaping the hammers and tightening the screws of an Acrosonic spinet made such a difference the owner thought I had tuned it--before I had.

Barbara Richmond, RPT
near Peoria, IL
waiting for my luggage to arrive from Tampa, Florida  :(

(Hey, Terry, just back from fishing with my son on the North Skyway Pier.)
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: AlliedPianoCraft 
  To: Pianotech List 
  Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 5:27 PM
  Subject: Re: Grand Cleaning


  assuming one is not shaping any significant depth below the grooves, you really are not changing (or making any worse) the existing regulation...... 

  True Terry, but then, that's a lot of work for no gain, don't you think?

  Al Guecia
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Farrell 
    To: Pianotech List 
    Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 4:41 PM
    Subject: Re: Grand Cleaning


    I'll certainly agree with you Al that if a hammer needs filing/shaping, it very likely needs regulating. However, assuming one is not shaping any significant depth below the grooves, you really are not changing (or making any worse) the existing regulation......

    Terry Farrell
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      Just a question from someone who has never shaped hammers without doing a regulating.  

      What about let off and drop once you've changed the hammer shape and height and then everything else that goes along once you've changed that?

      I do a cleaning and just a cleaning. If you want your hammers shaped, them you also need a regulating. Call me crazy, but it's just my way of doing things.

      Al Guecia
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