>AHA, The plot thickens! >>From your statement I take it to mean that you did not level the strings, >but just made sure that all strings were being hit with the correct hammer. >Doing thus so imho will cause all sorts of weird and not so wonderful >sounds due to string cut hammers in a different place as well as unlevel. >Leveling the bass strings will not cure all, but will make most unisons >much clearer. >Joe Goss >imatunr@primenet.com There's no plot here, Joe. If you had serviced this piano, you'd understand why I chose the course of action I did, and circumvented string leveling. But since you indicate string leveling would be something to do prior to fitting hammers to strings, which in most situations I fully agree, let's include traveling and spacing the hammers prior to fitting as well . The saying, "You can't make silk out of a sow's ear." seems somewhat apropos. Keith McGavern kam544@earthlink.net Registered Piano Technician Oklahoma Chapter 731 Piano Technicians Guild USA
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