[CAUT] Re-traveling (was Re: (no subject))

[Fred Sturm]

On Jul 17, 2006, at 6:24 PM, Cy Shuster wrote:

> Whoa, that's thinking outside the box...  That explanation helped a  
> lot.
>
> --Cy--
> shusterpiano.com
>
	Not so much thinking outside the box as being observant. I like to  
brush and iron wipp cushions and iron letoff felts in normal, on- 
going reconditioning, which I do with the stack face down. Then I  
would rotate it up to do the knuckles, and the motion of the hammers  
while I rotated the stack caught my eye a few years ago. Hmmm, says  
I, I thought I had traveled those hammers pretty darned well. And  
there they are wandering all over the place.
	I think traveling is one of the hardest skills to learn well using  
standard procedures: a rod under the shanks, trying to lift both ends  
simultaneously evenly, trying to get your eye in the right spot,  
judging spacing of moving objects. I have tried having parallel lines  
to judge against, and all sorts of gimmicks, but in the end, I found  
the method I described to be far easier, and that it yields far  
better results.

Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico
fssturm at unm.edu