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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Maybe I'm missing something here - and maybe I'm
just going to show off some of my ignorance - hanging hammers is not my
expertise - but how will bending the shank affect hammer travel? Seems to me if
a hammer travel has a horizontal component (you don't want any - all
movement should be vertical) during its travel through its arc, the
solution is to travel the hammer/shank/flange by inserting the appropriate
thickness of traveling paper under the flange (in this case on the bass side of
the flange screw). If you bend the shank, yes you can move the hammer over one
way or another, but it will still have a horizontal travel
component.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yes?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV>
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<P>A few days ago I had an interesting experience with a Baldwin D Concert
Grand. New Ronsen Wurzens and shanks/flanges(not sure what the
brand was). I had noticed lately that the hammers were traveling towards
the bass, i.e. depress the key and the space on the bass side of the moving
hammer and its neighbor was compressing. I went through and
started at the first tenor burning it in. That is heating the shank
with an Ungar heat gun and twisting the hammer towards the direction of
compression or in the instance the bass. I then spaced
the hammer back between its neighbors and check it
again. When it was right, I immediately noticed the tone of the
hammer was blooming...opening up...I did have to fit the hammer to the string
which fixed some buzzing sounds. I was
really able to hear this difference because I still had an
original hammer one note up. </P>
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<P>This is a really important part of hanging hammers. Travel the
shanks first, hang the hammers, then travel the hammers with a heat
gun. Yamaha Concert Services said the same thing...big part of
voicing the hammers...</P>
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<P>There are a number of hammer hanging articles PTG sells in a combilation,
for instance Cliff Gears and Steve Brady which expond on this...</P>
<P><BR>David Ilvedson, RPT<BR>Pacifica, CA
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