Steinway hammer alignment

[bases-loaded@juno.com]

Thanks, Paul.  I'll add this to my options for travelling the path of
least resistance.

Mark Potter
bases-loaded@juno.com

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 07:24:46 -0500 "Paul" <tunenbww@clear.lakes.com>
writes:
> Mark
> I just did one of these. I added a shim behind the stop block on the 
> bass
> side of the key frame, made minor adjustments to align hammers to 
> strings,
> took up the lost motion of the una corda pedal, reset the stop screw 
> on the
> treble side of the key frame. Test all keys with una corda pedal 
> depressed.
> There is a tendency for some of the keys to pick up an adjacent 
> damper
> lever.
> 
> Paul Chick
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <bases-loaded@juno.com>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 2:09 PM
> Subject: Steinway hammer alignment
> 
> 
> > Greetings -
> >
> > First service call to a new customer.  1976 vintage Steinway S.  
> More
> > than 2/3 of the hammers are striking left of center, although they 
> ARE
> > square to the string plane.  It is clear they have been this way 
> since
> > day one.
> >
> > The Steinway rail does not allow enough play to simply loosen the 
> hammer
> > flange screws so that the hammers can be moved over to the right 
> enough
> > to be centered.  I had to use the soft pedal constantly in order 
> to sound
> > the majority of the right hand strings for tuning.
> >
> > What have some of you found to be the best solution for this 
> problem?  I
> > must say I have never run into such rampant misalignment, and find 
> it
> > hard to believe it has not been noticed and dealt with by now.
> >
> > Thanks for any input!
> >
> > Mark Potter
> > bases-loaded@juno.com
> >
> 
>