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<p>Piannaman@aol.com wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>List,</font></font>
<p><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>After tuning thousandss of
pianos over the last couple of decades, I had an experience yesterday that
was a first for me. It was a brand new upright piano, a brand new
model manufactured in the southeastern US. I was tuning the in the mid-treble
when the D-66 hammer snapped. No, not the shank. The hammer
snapped right at the beginning of the felt where it tapers onto the molding.</font></font>
<p><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>I admit to pounding fairly
hard when I tune, and perhaps my pending divorce had something to do with
the ferocity of the blow(:-), but this was a new one on me. Anyone
else ever seen this?</font></font>
<p><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size=-1>Dave Stahl</font></font></blockquote>
<p><br>Only from piano pounders :)
<p>I dont pound, never have, never will. My tunings are solid as the proverbial
rock and that has as long as I remember been my strongest asset tuningwise.
Pounding simply is not neccessary.
<p>Nope.... never had a hammer snap on me. Rarely, a shank will snap.
And thats always on an old piano that has rather brittleized parts.
<p>Yours is probably a fluke anyways tho. A strange place to snap.
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<p>Cheers
<br>RicB
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<br>Richard Brekne
<br>RPT, N.P.T.F.
<br>UiB, Bergen, Norway
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