<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3059" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sorry, should have bin hurt.  Something went wrong with my spell checker.  Its changing the wrong words.</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=avery1@houston.rr.com href="mailto:avery1@houston.rr.com">Avery</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, March 23, 2007 7:31 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: hammer filing</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=3>That's a term I've never heard before. What is "a hint on hammers"? <BR><BR>Avery <BR><BR>At 08:32 PM 3/22/2007, you wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">Well...  No...  Some players can put a hint on hammers.  I'm sure the Person is probably doing a light filing on them.  This will allow the hammers to ware more evenly.<BR>----- Original Message ----- From: "Noah Haverkamp" <noahhaverkamp@yahoo.com><BR>To: <pianotech@ptg.org><BR>Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 9:01 AM<BR>Subject: hammer filing<BR><BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">I was just chatting with a friend  who said her tuner files<BR>("shaves") her hammers every time he tunes. whoa! i've only been in<BR>this for a year, but that seems very wrong to me.<BR><BR><BR>Noah Haverkamp<BR>Know-a Piano<BR><A href="http://www.knowapiano.com/" eudora="autourl">http://www.knowapiano.com</A><BR>347-308-0094<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>