Conrad, It looks like you might have had them in a damp place. :-) John John M. Ross Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "Conrad Hoffsommer" <hoffsoco@luther.edu> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 7:40 AM Subject: RE: Baldwin Gauge? > At 23:21 7/3/2005, you wrote: >>It is a convention give-away tool used to determine whether or not a >>hammerhead is square to the hammershank. Simply lay the short, bent over >>part on top of the hammershank, move it so that the long, narrow part runs >>along the hammerhead molding and see that the hammerhead is square to the >>shank. >> >>When replacing hammers it is used to draw a line along the centerline of >>the original hammerhead molding on the sample hammerheads (those left in >>place to align the new hammerheads to). This can be quite helpful if the >>original hammerheads have been badly mis-shaped over the years. >> >>Del >> >> > > I've got two of them. Different length "vertical" arms. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Conrad Hoffsommer > > Early to rise: early to bed; > Makes a man healthy, and socially dead. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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