physically getting hammers on shanks

[Greg Newell]

I just finished playing with a Broadwood upright about 80 years old 
that had the hammers bored all the way through. The glue joint had 
failed on most and they were clicking with each play of the key. What fun!!!


Greg Newell


At 01:53 PM 12/20/2006, you wrote:
>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
>