This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hello David. =20 These hammers have all been "filed" or "reshaped" which-ever term you = prefer. The other suggestions of things to look at and do, I'll do and work-on = this Sunday and respond on my findings. But I would ask again, to be sure, would you = really want to file them some more?. Many thanks, and my regards, Gordon Holley Imadegawas are generally pretty hard already. I wouldn't add lacquer.=20 File them a bit and make sure that all strings are contacted. Look carefully from the backside of the capo bar to make sure the hammers are not hitting too close to the bar. If the action is pushed in all the = way you can get the hammers to move in further by putting a large = screwdriver under the front rail in front of where you are testing and prying = upward, tilting the action inward. See if that improves things. If it does, = you will have to rehang the hammers farther out on the shank. I am assuming you are not catching the checks on the way up or blocking against the strings. It sounds like it's probably a strike point issue. One other thing to check is that on some pianos the edge oof the plate can get perilously close to the strike point and the inside edge of the hammer = can be contacting the plate before the hammer hits the string string. Look = at the inside shoulder of the hammer and see if you have a plate mark from repeated impact. If so, file the shoulder of the hammer until you have clearance, move the hammer line in slightly, or rake the hammers back = until you get the strike point that you want. =20 David Love ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/82/e6/1f/8e/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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