A Test Question

[Jon Page]

I would choose option #2.
Tune by plucking the strings with your fingernail, or use the unacorda pedal.
Leave the realignment til next time when you are not in such time constraint..
A 'quick fix' may snowball on you.  Later on, when the action is removed you
can proceed with a general 'tweeking', and you can plan for the time.
Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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At 08:58 AM 2/2/97 -0800, you wrote:
>You are tuning for a regular customer whose piano is medium to good and
>you are about half way through and are rushing to avoid being late to a
>dental appointment afterwards when you discover several hammers warped
>enough by humidity or whatever to be missing one of the strings.
>Do you:
>1. Ignore the situation?  If not, why not?
>2. Tune the unstruck string, and if so how?
>3. Align the hammer, and if so is this enough?
>4. Twist the shank.  Is this all that needs to be done?
>5. Travel the hammer.  How is this different from Aligning?
>6. Reshape the hammer.  Why would this be necessary?
>7. Throw up your hands in frustration.  (My choice for a lot of
>situations)
>8. All of the above?
>9. Choose your own numbers or add some.
>
>This list gets into areas that I'm sure some of the newer technicians
>have a hard time understanding because they don't have the basic
>knowledge yet.  I suggest that discussions like the above may be very
>helpful to them.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Warren
>--
>Warren D. Fisher
>fish@communique.net
>Registered Piano Technician
>Piano Technicians Guild
>New Orleans Chapter 701
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