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<div>It isn't all that uncommon to LIGHTLY sand the surface of the hammer regularly. It seems to keep the grooves to a minimum, the hammer surface supple, and can keep the tone more even.</div>
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<div>A major shaping of hammers at every appointment WOULD be extreme.<SPAN contentEditable=false style="DISPLAY: inline-block"></SPAN></div>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: noahhaverkamp@yahoo.com<br>
To: pianotech@ptg.org<br>
Sent: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 9:01 AM<br>
Subject: hammer filing<br>
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<div class=AOLPlainTextBody id=AOLMsgPart_0_7bc91ce4-f139-4118-81bf-09d3d9aa2be1><PRE><TT>I was just chatting with a friend who said her tuner files
("shaves") her hammers every time he tunes. whoa! i've only been in
this for a year, but that seems very wrong to me.
Noah Haverkamp
Know-a Piano
<A href="http://www.knowapiano.com/" target=_blank>http://www.knowapiano.com</A>
347-308-0094
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