>On Fri, 22 Dec 1995 DBHersh@aol.com wrote: > >> At first I thought it was just a mistake at the factory but the fact that it >> is consistently in the tenor makes me wonder if it isn't done deliberately. > > Doug, when I took the Steinway factory seminar over ten years ago >the factory spec was to space the hammers to look uniform at rest, then >travel them so that they hit the strings properly spaced to the strings. >I think this might still be the way they do it. Since the unison groups >aren't always spaced consistently, they have to travel them off to one >side or the other. Doesn't make much sense to me, either. > >Steve Brady, RPT >Univ. of Wash. > Steve, Then that would mean that the agraffes are not spaced correctly, also. Right? Avery
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