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<div>Liszt,</div>
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<div><SPAN contentEditable=false style="DISPLAY: inline-block"></SPAN>This may be no news to some of you, but some of you may find it helpful.</div>
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<div>I had to replace a hammer on a small upright a couple of days ago because whoever broke it off decided that it would no longer be needed. It was a relatively new piano, too. </div>
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<div>So since I had the time, I dug through my miscellaneous hammer bag that I got years ago from Pianotek for 10$ and found a decent match...but it was a grand hammer! I was able to saw off the tail and make it workable. </div>
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<div>It was F#3, and the hammer needed to go on at a pretty steep angle, plus it was pitched forward a bit. I took G3 off to use as a model, and decided to use it as a jig. Since there really isn't enough space between one's knuckles/drill and the model/jig, I turned the complete assembly upside down. I was able to press the hammer heads together, and using a drill bit in my combi handle, duplicate bore and pitch pretty well by using the upside down shank as a visual guide. It came out pretty well. The whole thing took about 40 minutes.</div>
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<div>Hope this helps some of you at least some of the time!</div>
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<div style="CLEAR: both">Dave Stahl, RPT<br>
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Dave Stahl Piano Service<br>
650-224-3560<br>
dstahlpiano@sbcglobal.net<br>
http://dstahlpiano.net/<br>
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