Dale: I recently did the same on a Steinway A III that I was doing a complete forefinishing on. The new keyset and raw frame would only work with a re-make of the end blocks. I planed about 3/8" off one, and added the same to the other, having to move all of the pins, dowels, hardware, etc. It's painstaking, but fun. Paul In a message dated 2/14/2011 10:21:56 A.M. Central Standard Time, erwinspiano at aol.com writes: Yeah....Now you tell me. I guess we needed the practice.....:) Actually it wasn't as hard as it sounds Dale S. Erwin www.Erwinspiano.com Custom restoration Ronsen Piano hammers Join the Weickert felt Revolution 209-577-8397 209-985-0990 -----Original Message----- From: Ed Foote <a440a at aol.com> To: caut at ptg.org Sent: Mon, Feb 14, 2011 6:15 am Subject: [CAUT] Fly parts; was NY hammers/ Hamburg hammers Dale writes: >> I recently took 3 mm off the bass cheekblock of a 1935 D to get the hammers correctly positioned under the strings. Key ends under the under lifters etc. That required moving the blocks locating dowels, hold down screw hole and key slip screw and bending the brass fall board in a bit to keep the fall closing with out rubbing. Wow, that is a lot of work. I had to move an action to the bass by 5 mm more than the block would allow, so I cut off the side facing the bottom A, leaving the dowels and screw holes alone.. All I needed to do was bevel the edge, recut the mortise for the guide and spray some black lacquer. It seemed easier than shifting the block. Regards, Ed Foote -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110214/b7078c63/attachment.htm>
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