New Tools - mishung hammers

[Jon Page]

If you must go with those hammers, cut the shanks flush to the molding and 
rebore
for a new set of shanks to get the proper strike distance.  Don't compound 
errors.

Regards,

Jon Page


At 11:53 AM 07/18/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>You are welcome!!  Now just tell me that I am wrong when I say that there
>is no easy way to correct a mishung set of hammers that another "tech"
>hung on a small grand that I was called on to service last week.  Only
>way I can see to do it is remove and rehang which is a real shame
>considering that the customer has already paid for that once and didn't
>really get what she paid for.  Key frame has to be moved so far in on the
>treble end that  the back sides of the top two or three sharps are
>rubbing against the fallboard. - @#$$%%^%$##%  The only "good" thing
>about it is that she has had several other techs work on her piano and
>none of them have made any attempt to diagnose the problem - just
>collected their tuning fee and exited.  All I know is that when I packed
>up to leave she told me that she IS going to want me back for just that
>reason.
>( I think I would feel a lot better if I could hang the tech rather than
>the hammers. ) :-)
>
>John R. Fortiner
>Billings, MT.

Jon Page,   piano technician
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.
mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net
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