Steinway hammer alignment

[Isaac OLEG SIMANOT]

Hello,

The shim is only for correct for the felt wear normally.

But you have a little margin left if you wish, before there is a problem
with the dampers.

I wonder, on a Steinway with badly worn (hard) hammers, if some kind of gain
could be obtained shaping the hammers, and letting them go to the left
enough to have a more healthy felt under the strings (never have the
opportunity to do that).

Isaac

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]De la part
> de Paul
> Envoyé : mercredi 17 octobre 2001 14:25
> À : pianotech@ptg.org
> Objet : Re: Steinway hammer alignment
>
>
> Mark
> I just did one of these. I added a shim behind the stop block on the bass
> side of the key frame, made minor adjustments to align hammers to strings,
> took up the lost motion of the una corda pedal, reset the stop
> screw on the
> treble side of the key frame. Test all keys with una corda pedal
> depressed.
> There is a tendency for some of the keys to pick up an adjacent damper
> lever.
>
> Paul Chick
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <bases-loaded@juno.com>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 2:09 PM
> Subject: Steinway hammer alignment
>
>
> > Greetings -
> >
> > First service call to a new customer.  1976 vintage Steinway S.  More
> > than 2/3 of the hammers are striking left of center, although they ARE
> > square to the string plane.  It is clear they have been this way since
> > day one.
> >
> > The Steinway rail does not allow enough play to simply loosen the hammer
> > flange screws so that the hammers can be moved over to the right enough
> > to be centered.  I had to use the soft pedal constantly in
> order to sound
> > the majority of the right hand strings for tuning.
> >
> > What have some of you found to be the best solution for this problem?  I
> > must say I have never run into such rampant misalignment, and find it
> > hard to believe it has not been noticed and dealt with by now.
> >
> > Thanks for any input!
> >
> > Mark Potter
> > bases-loaded@juno.com
> >
>
>