<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Dave, Saw it once on an old piano, I think, high treble.  CA glued it back together, and although I don't remember which piano it was, I assume it's still holding. Regards, Clyde Piannaman@aol.com wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>List, 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. 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? Dave Stahl</blockquote> </html>