This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I feel for you Phil, tomorrow I get to voice this SamICK into a = Saaamick.=20 What a difference weighing off the action properly made (after repining) = and adjusting the wippen assist spring. What a mess of hammer alignment = I had to straighten out. This action plays quite nicely. Strings are = level except a couple of bass agraffes that are tilted too far to level. = What can you do about that? These hammers are driving the strings now. When I plucked a string on = the new S&S D in the shop, it sounded very similar tonally to the = Samick. When I played the note I realized the hammers were driving the = sizzle on the D. With that long of a tenor string, voicing is a = different animal. Now this Samick is showing some potential which amazes = me because these hammers were never voiced. They are cupped so bad it = looks like Batman's helmet. I wonder if they were ever touched with = sandpaper. Solid rocks.=20 How did Ed figure getting the needle in the dremmel? Don't laugh. I may = need something like that. About=20 5mm is all you can push a needle in. If I drive three=20 needles 6mm in, I need a pry bar to get them out without breaking the = hammer. I am going to go with the Jolly method and try to run a center = stitch with a single # 12 needle. Push it all the way to wood then hope = I can get it out. Then I think I would critically wound any hard spots = in the hammers but in this case that is the whole hammer. Voicing may = be real easy because needling might be fruitless.=20 Anybody know any other ways to attack these hammers? Any slick ways of getting a broken needle out of a hammer? Keith Roberts ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/44/11/8d/c7/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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