----- Original Message ----- From: Barbara Richmond To: Pianotech List Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 6:03 PM Subject: Re: Grand Cleaning There is likely to be a change/improvement in voicing--improvement being subjective and one had better explain the possible results tonally/voicing wise. Reshaping would make the hammers look cleaner, though. Shaping the hammers and tightening the screws of an Acrosonic spinet made such a difference the owner thought I had tuned it--before I had. Barbara Richmond, RPT near Peoria, IL waiting for my luggage to arrive from Tampa, Florida :( (Hey, Terry, just back from fishing with my son on the North Skyway Pier.) ----- Original Message ----- From: AlliedPianoCraft To: Pianotech List Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 5:27 PM Subject: Re: Grand Cleaning assuming one is not shaping any significant depth below the grooves, you really are not changing (or making any worse) the existing regulation...... True Terry, but then, that's a lot of work for no gain, don't you think? Al Guecia ----- Original Message ----- From: Farrell To: Pianotech List Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 4:41 PM Subject: Re: Grand Cleaning I'll certainly agree with you Al that if a hammer needs filing/shaping, it very likely needs regulating. However, assuming one is not shaping any significant depth below the grooves, you really are not changing (or making any worse) the existing regulation...... Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- Just a question from someone who has never shaped hammers without doing a regulating. What about let off and drop once you've changed the hammer shape and height and then everything else that goes along once you've changed that? I do a cleaning and just a cleaning. If you want your hammers shaped, them you also need a regulating. Call me crazy, but it's just my way of doing things. Al Guecia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080330/0044ab58/attachment.html
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