[CAUT] upright backcheck angle

[David Ilvedson]

At Yamaha, I learned how to hold the wire with a wire bending tool and move the backcheck towards the hammer tail, then tipping the back of the tool up, it molds to the tails shape...I don't think I could explain...has to be shown...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, California



----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Tim Geinert" <geinert at drtel.net>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Received: 6/2/2006 11:07:09 AM
Subject: [CAUT] upright backcheck angle


>A couple years ago now, Roger Jolly mentioned that a good backcheck angle on 
>a grand is 18 degrees back from vertical (along with a few other 
>conditions).  Is there an angle, or relationship to the catcher on a 
>vertical that is consistently "catchy"?

>Tim G