[pianotech] Bad day in Truman

[PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com]

Alan:
 
As a remedial fix for lesser pianos...
 
Pull the action out and hang it upside down on action hangers/braces. If  
the hammers are flopping around on the shank end, figure the strike line 
before  you turn the action over and clamp up the hammers by section if need be. 
Then  put a drop or two of glue on each hammer/shank glue joint while the 
action is  upside down so that gravity keeps the glue on the hammer/shank, 
let it dry, and  turn it right side up before trying to put it back in the 
piano ().
 
Paul
 
 
In a message dated 2/12/2011 12:50:16 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
reggaepass at aol.com writes:

Paul,

Might be  that the glue joints on the hammers were starved, and somebody 
had to reglue  them, forgetting to keep them in line as they dried.  I've done 
a lot  of these Baldwins with starved glue joints.

I have a client  with a Baldwin upright which may have this same problem.  
Many, if not  most, of notes make a "loose hammer head" sound, although none 
of the hammers  actually feel loose when I tried to rock them back and 
forth (like loose  hammers always do on a grand).  Is that one of the conditions 
you have  encountered with starved glue joints on these pianos?  And is 
removing  and rehanging the hammers the most efficient way to deal with this, 
or is  there some other, slicker way?   I did not have enough time with the  
piano to try removing and regluing one to answer the question of whether or  
not what I am hearing is, indeed, loose hammer heads.  


Thanks,


Alan Eder




-----Original  Message-----
From: Paul McCloud <pmc033 at earthlink.net>
To:  pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Fri, Feb 11, 2011 7:28  am
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Bad day in Truman


 
Might be that the glue joints on the  hammers were starved, and somebody 
had to reglue them, forgetting to keep them  in line as they dried.  I've done 
a lot of these Baldwins with starved  glue joints.  Just a thought.  I 
still like those old  Hamiltons.  Unless they have that awful Ecsaine.  Was it 
from that  era?
Paul McCloud
San Diego
 


 

----- Original Message ----- 
From:   (mailto:tnrwim at aol.com) 
To: _pianotech at ptg.org_ (mailto:pianotech at ptg.org) 
Sent: 02/11/2011 12:21:58 PM 
Subject: [pianotech] Bad day in  Truman


These are on a 30 year old Hamilton. The bass section isn't much  better. 
Probably hung late Friday afternoon, or right after the afternoon  "coffee 
break". 
 
Wim





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