Steinway hammer alignment

Richard Brekne rbrekne@broadpark.no
Wed, 17 Oct 2001 07:07:51 +0200


Really Ron, I am beginning to wonder along the same lines... this one is
getting er... interesting... perhaps the whole top action is somehow leaning
over to the left ??

Ron Nossaman wrote:

> Mark,
> Just a thought or two. Are the action brackets square (vertically) with the
> rails? Has the piano been moved recently? And does anyone know if it's
> possible for the stack to parallelogram left if the piano is dropped on the
> skid? That is, dropped less than thirty feet? How far off are the knuckles
> compared to the hammers? If they're off a similar distance, just aligning
> the hammers to the strings with front/back shims won't center the knuckle.
> If everything but what's on the hammer rail is lined up where it belongs,
> how about moving the hammer rail over some?
>
> Ron N

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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway
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