English word for that?

[Mark Bolsius]

I don't know whether it's Australian or English - perhaps some of our
Anglo-techs could enlighten us.

The word we use for that process is "hammer running".

I suppose that's why we have nomenclature books.

Cheers
Mark Bolsius

Canberra Australia


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>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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