[pianotech] Waltham, was Pic Puzzler

[Mike Spalding]

That makes so much more sense than what I said.  I've had my coffee now 
- can I erase it and start over?

On 11/12/2011 10:00 AM, Ron Nossaman wrote:
> On 11/11/2011 9:29 PM, David Skolnik wrote:
>>
>> Mike -
>> How tall is that piano? Work looks excellent. One question. Was that the
>> original hammer line in the tenor? I expected to see the first few
>> hammers (#29,30, 31, etc.) with a graduated strike point starting closer
>> to the nut (top termination) than the remainder of the treble, although,
>> in the picture at least, the shanks look like they couldn't be any
>> longer.
>
> Straight strike lines are the norm for these old pianos, in my 
> experience. I've presumed the swooped up low tenor strike line in more 
> recent verticals was an attempt to get the hammers clear of the 
> dampers at the crossover, dampers being placed in the way courtesy of 
> the high overstrung angle necessary to make the bass strings long 
> enough to fit the advertising brochure.
>
> Ron N