Hello List Someone simply HAS to ask what would appear to be "dumb" questions - but if you don't know what is being discussed and how pertinent it is .... then dumb or not it simply has to be asked. Here are my "dumb" questions: Ed Foote says: "Once I have found my bore distance..." So here's my first dumb question: What is "bore distance" and how/where is it measured? I can hazzard a guess he's talking about the distance from the nose of the hammer to the dead-centre of the shank bore...? Ed Foote also says: "I hang the end section hammers at 130 mm" Now for the second dumb question: 130mm from where to where? This really floors me. 130mm gets me from anyplace to no-where...! There are a lot of dumb things going on in the piano-tech business - one of the most glaring examples, in my opinion, is Steinway GLUING on the damper flanges to the Damper Flange Rail. This is the situation in the S&S school Model "A" which started off this thread. Regards from the darkest corner of the Sussex Downlands Michael G (UK)
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