traveling

[Farrell]

I also had a set hung my Wally a while back. I was VERY pleased. Very little
traveling, etc.

Terry Farrell
Piano Tuning & Service
Tampa, Florida
mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lance Lafargue" <lancelafargue@bellsouth.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 10:43 AM
Subject: RE: traveling


> I recently had a set hung by Wally and I had very little travel/burning to
> do.
> Lance Lafargue, RPT
> Mandeville, LA
> New Orleans Chapter, PTG
> lancelafargue@bellsouth.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf
> Of Avery Todd
> Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 9:19 AM
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: traveling
>
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> At 12:21 PM 02/24/01 +0100, you wrote:
>
>
> >Avery Todd wrote:
> >
> > > Pris isn't saying that pre-traveling isn't a good way to do it,
> > > necessarily. She's only saying that it isn't "necessary" because once
> > the hammers
> > > are hung, you usually have to go back and do a good bit of traveling
> > anyway.
> >
> >This is fair enough. Question is whether its desirable or not to do it
one
> >way or
> >the other. I suppose in the end thats going to end up being  up to the
> >individual
>
> My only thought here is that if the shanks/flanges you're using are going
> to need a
> good bit of traveling, hanging the hammers first with that method seems
> like it
> would be a good bit faster. No duplication of effort, i.e. traveling,
> hanging, then
> having to travel again. And in a factory setting, especially, speed (and
> hopefully,
> accuracy) :-) would be a big factor, I would think.
>
> > > . I've bought pre-hung hammers and there is a lot of traveling and
> > > burning to do once they are installed,
> >
> >No argument here... thats one of the reason I never buy prehung hammers.
> >Yamaha
> >and  Steinway included.
>
> But as slow as I am at hanging hammers, especially on a jig, prehung is
> "still" faster
> for me. I've only used Wally's and I'm getting ready to install my first
> set of prehung
> from Yamaha.
>
>  > P.S. Does E for Effort count? :-)
>
> >Only if its an S.E.   :)
>
> ??????????? S.E.??????? Not familiar with this one.
>
> Avery
>
> >Richard Brekne
> >RPT, N.P.T.F.
> >Bergen, Norway
> >mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
>
>
>