English word for that?

[Thomas Cole]

Gregor --

We call it "traveling" the shanks. By raising and lowering several 
hammers with a pencil or other object underneath the shanks, you can 
watch for a hammer that shifts to one side, caused by the centerpin not 
being parallel with the strings.

I like how you correct the problem with "correction" tape.

Tom Cole

Gregor _ wrote:

> I went to the Frankfurt music fair yesterday and scrolled through the 
> Piano Nomenclatur book by Schimmel. There I found a German word which 
> I never heard of, the verb "schiebern". I know what it means, but I 
> usually say "to remove schieber" (schieber as a noun). Funny: in that 
> book there was no english word for that, the only one translation was 
> the Italian one. It means the following:
>
> When you move a few hammers to the strings by hand and you see that 
> one hammer has a left-hand (or right hand) twist so that the middle of 
> the hammer does not hit the middle of the 3 strings, one should 
> regulate that. I mean that the hammer makes not only a forward, but 
> also a sideward movement ("schieber"). In this case one takes a piece 
> of paper and adjusts it under one side of the hammer butt flange. 
> Correction tape for type writers does a good job for that. The result 
> is that the hammer is on the correct course again. Once I visited the 
> Renner factory and I saw some guys who did that job in piecework. I 
> never so that job done so extremely quick and accurate.
>
> How do you say it on English?
>
> Gregor
>
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