Tom, Charles and others, As the kids say: duuh! I guess I just had my mind on the hammers and associated the "five years" with that. Sorry. I would still like to know, though, how often you file concert hammers in a heavy use, concert situation. >>>On professional instruments that receive lots of heavy playing and >>>tuning, >>>these registers will require some serious attention at least >>>every five >>>years or so. >> Can you *really* go this long on a heavily played concert instrument >>(I'm thinking Recital Hall here)? If I waited that long on ours, I'm afraid >>they would be worn completely flat and sound like a tin pan. >> How often do others on the list file hammers on their concert instruments? >I have a feeling that Charles was referring to restringing the capo section >and reshaping the capo bar every five years or so - not filing hammers >every five years. > > >Tom Seay > >t.seay@mail.utexas.edu >The University of Texas at Austin _____________________________________ Avery Todd, RPT Moore's School of Music University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-4893 713-743-3226 atodd@uh.edu _____________________________________
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