She was deonstrating factory hammer hanging. Apparently shanks are not traveled before hanging and not traveled afterwards except by burning in...it does not compute for me either........ David I *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 2/22/01 at 5:24 AM David Love wrote: >David: > >I think she means that after you travel the shanks with the hammers >already >hung, you will have to burn the shanks in order to reorient the hammers to >vertical. > >David Love > > >>From: "David Ilvedson" <ilvey@jps.net> >>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org >>To: "pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> >>Subject: traveling >>Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:17:15 -0800 >> >>List, >> >>I remember a class I (partially) took from Pris Rappaport some years ago >on >>hammer hanging. She wanted to make a point about not needing to travel >the >>shanks before hanging the hammers. She purposely shimmed a flange on >each >>student's jig with traveling paper before the class hung their hammers. >>Apparently burning in the shanks would do the trick...I still can't >figure >>this out...I can understand burning in the shanks to align the hammers >but >>how does this travel hammers? >> >>David I. >> > >_________________________________________________________________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
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