[pianotech] Hammer strike line. Was-----Yamaha Hammer Suggestion

[Ron Nossaman]

William Truitt wrote:
> A little curve ball question to go along with this:  Aren’t you and 
> Ron and a few others getting rid of the front duplexes and replacing in 
> with a  single bar with a shorter length between the v bar and the 
> string rest?  There won’t be the kind of energy losses with that 
> configuration as there are with the duplexes, which would also 
> contribute to an improvement in tone in the killer section.

Quite possibly. A plausible contender. The next question would 
be to David L as to whether the pianos in which he found it 
unnecessary to bend the strike line had original duplex scales 
or not. Mine did not. Good question.
Ron N