At 1:26 pm -0500 20/12/06, Mike McCoy wrote: >I saw a tech that did upright hammers like a grand. He salvaged the >old butts by drilling them out, glued new shanks into the butts, >drilled the hammers all the way through the moulding, spun them on >the shanks and aligned the strike points with a string line in the >piano and cut the excess shank off when dry. Richard Lipp of Stuttgart, who made one of the finest uprights (best before 1914), always have the hammers bored through. I have not seen it on any other piano. JD
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