[CAUT] Tip of the Year Revisted

[Keith Roberts]

I doubled on this one guys, sorry about the extra post with the wrong
subject.  Keith

On 3/25/07, Keith Roberts <keithspiano at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I did a few more shank travelings and I found that the movement at the
> hammer head is far larger than the movement at the shank. Using the stick
> and clothespin method, a movement of a thick pencil line on the stick was
> the equivelent of a mm to a 1/16 inch. On a piano that shanks hadn't been
> traveled properly before hanging the hammers, flipping the stack over works
> great. BUT..
>
> On a piano I am going to hang hammers, the stick method works so well and
> is so easy, I don't have to travel any of the shanks after I hang the set.
> It saves so much burning and on this set I hung yesterday you can pick up
> the hammers with a straight edge under the tails and they all sit flat on
> the surface and don't move sideways as you move them up and down. I spaced
> them evenly and all of a sudden this piano lines up. You know, all the ducks
> are in a row, nice, neat and orderly.
> You need to try this Fred.
> Once you have the sticks made you may never go back.
> You don't have to pull the stack, jack.
>
> Keith Roberts
>
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