<div>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..
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<div>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.
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<div>You need to try this Fred. </div>
<div>Once you have the sticks made you may never go back. </div>
<div>You don't have to pull the stack, jack.</div>
<div><br>Keith Roberts</div>