Hi Julia, Practicing on your personal piano is an excellent thought. To save time and headaches, have your hammers pre-bored, tail shaped, etc. so you're ready to glue and go! Are you going to replace the shanks and flanges, too? Paul KeyKat88 at aol.com Sent by: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org 03/05/2009 09:13 AM Please respond to pianotech at ptg.org To pianotech at ptg.org cc Subject [pianotech] First hammer job - considerations Greetings, No pun intended but: It just "struck" me today that I never installed hammers for a paying customer. I was called to evaluate the condition of a Steinway console, and told the perspective buyer it's going to need new hammers in the next couple years or so. ...The last time I installed hammers was 5 years ago in tuning/tech school. I am thinking: wwwelllll....I have needled and needled my Yamaha U3 and I still remaining is this ear piercing underlying tone... SO... perhaps I should install my own set before I attempt for a paying customer. I am just looking down the road at this job inevitably dead ahead. My post has a 2 fold purpose: 1. Sharing with new techs that this inevitably will happen to you and 2. Asking for any thoughts of the experienced. Thank you Julia Gottshall Reading, PA Need a job? Find employment help in your area. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090305/dddd8244/attachment.html>
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