Hammer travelling

Avery Todd atodd@UH.EDU
Sat, 23 Dec 1995 08:46:13 -0600 (CST)


>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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