wierd hammer line

[KeyKat88 at aol.com]

Greetings,

           On a Samick 6' grand when the stack is pulled out and all the 
hammers are lifted forward, (as when examining the jack windows) I noticed that 
the hammer line is "all over the place"(!) I don't believe I have ever seen this 
unevenness! It is really un-nerving!  I mean some hammers stop way forward 
and others are 1" to 2" back further. I mean; its not even a smooth "wave" it 
looks, well... radical and...wrong. I have been tuning pianos for 3 years, and 
have only done one grand regulation in that time. (People just dont ask for 
it.) Piano tech school was 4 years ago for me, so I cant remember what forward 
hammer-line should look like and I dont own a grand piano (yet) to check it out.

             The piano is about 15 years old and also the drop screws are 
screwed in all unevenly (all different depths drastically unveven from adjacent 
neighbors). I would think that being a relatively young piano, and played maybe 
2 hours a day average, that the regulation would look more even than this. 
The lady told me that when the piano was new she had it regulated and paid $400 
to have it done. So this "regulation" isnt factory. THe only thing that looks 
any decent is the key leveling and the back checking. 

               Shouldnt the regulation look more even on a newer piano ie: 
the capstans all nearly the same height and letoff buttons and drop screws 
almost the same to their neighbors?

Thanks 
Julia Gottshall
Reading, PA    
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