<<"has used the same tuner for the same number of years.">> <<"This fellow came in and in no time was filing hammers and needling. The pianist told me the tuner was complaining about how hard the hammers were to file.">> David; Renner Blue, along with Encore and S&S Hamburg, among others, are defintely not the easiest hammers to file, but each are 'definitely' worth taking the time and trouble to do correctly and the same technique that works just fine on the older, popular, hammers such as Preimer will not suffice on these iterations. This sad tale of the older performer's piano points out another fine reason to attend workshops and conventions to stay current with new and changing techniques/materials. While I am sure this tech was doing the best he knew how, that the end results show perhaps 1 or 2 years experience repeated twenty or thirty times rather than twenty or thirty years of experience. Unfortunate for all concerned and perhaps mostly so for the tech. Jim Bryant (FL)
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