Hi Dan, The strike point on the string is really the important thing. If your hammer line results in hitting the string at the right place, that is what you want, right? So why is the strike line on the new set higher than the old set? Are the new hammers not bored as deeply as the old ones? BTW, the hammers on Steinway verticals are often not hung at 90 degrees to the shank (like maybe 87 degrees), and they are also often hung at the factory so that they overstrike. Alan -- Alan McCoy, RPT Eastern Washington University amccoy at ewu.edu 509-359-4627 (message Pacific time) 509-999-9512 (cell Pacific time) ________________________________ From: Dan Rembold <d_rembold at yahoo.com> Reply-To: CAUTlist <caut at ptg.org> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:38:07 -0700 To: CAUTlist <caut at ptg.org> Subject: [CAUT] Vertical hammer installation List, I've got what may be an obvious question. I'm preparing to install a set of Abel hammers on a Steinway vertical, and the center lines of the trials are about an eighth of an inch above the center line of the original neighbors. Would I do well to shorten the shanks enough to line up properly, or is there something else I'm missing. Has anyone else encountered this? Any help would be appreciated. Dan Rembold Auburn University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20090716/f4aa4bfb/attachment.htm>
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