correct hammer shaping

[Richard Brekne]

Welcome to reality Terry. :)

The better you develope your own skills and the more you learn, the more 
difficult it becomes to accept shody work and excuses for not learning 
to do things acceptably well in the first place.  Its a tough balance in 
the end because of the realities of what we can actually demand.  Fact 
is anyone can get out there and screw up just about anyones piano for 
top dollar and get away with it far too often.  Fact is also there is 
little or nothing we can do about it except depend on the market forces, 
AND.. most importantly... do our very best to insure we dont operate 
that way.  It looks like to me.... from a very far distance :):)... that 
you are well on your way to insureing that lastsaid is true.

Keep on keepin on !

RicB

pianolover 88 wrote:

> lately I've been averaging about 2 actions per week; most are filing & 
> reshaping jobs. Most have hammers that are being filed for the first 
> time. The last grand action I brought to my shop for this treatment 
> had hammers that were previously filed (maybe 10 or more years ago) 
> but were reshaped quite poorly, either as a result of haste, lack of 
> skill or both. Not only was the felt TOTALLY asymetrical, but the 
> strike points were so off-angle that only ONE, maybe two strings (of a 
> three string unison) were being struck, even with a moderate blow! The 
> angled hammers were the worst because whoever filed them last time 
> seemed to be filing ALL the hammers in the SAME up & back direction as 
> the keys, instead of in the natural direction dictated by each 
> individual hammer. I've seen this odd and incorrect filing method a 
> couple of times before, and have wondered if the same person was 
> responsible.
>
> Terry Peterson
>
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