physically getting hammers on shanks

[John Delacour]

At 1:26 pm -0500 20/12/06, Mike McCoy wrote:

>I saw a tech that did upright hammers like a grand. He salvaged the 
>old butts by drilling them out, glued new shanks into the butts, 
>drilled the hammers all the way through the moulding, spun them on 
>the shanks and aligned the strike points with a string line in the 
>piano and cut the excess shank off when dry.

Richard Lipp of Stuttgart, who made one of the finest uprights (best 
before 1914), always have the hammers bored through.  I have not seen 
it on any other piano.

JD