<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Gregor -- We call it "traveling" the shanks. By raising and lowering several hammers with a pencil or other object underneath the shanks, you can watch for a hammer that shifts to one side, caused by the centerpin not being parallel with the strings. I like how you correct the problem with "correction" tape. Tom Cole Gregor _ wrote: <blockquote cite="midBAY111-F8BCA2E56FC2E95954178CD4620@phx.gbl" type="cite">I went to the Frankfurt music fair yesterday and scrolled through the Piano Nomenclatur book by Schimmel. There I found a German word which I never heard of, the verb "schiebern". I know what it means, but I usually say "to remove schieber" (schieber as a noun). Funny: in that book there was no english word for that, the only one translation was the Italian one. It means the following: When you move a few hammers to the strings by hand and you see that one hammer has a left-hand (or right hand) twist so that the middle of the hammer does not hit the middle of the 3 strings, one should regulate that. I mean that the hammer makes not only a forward, but also a sideward movement ("schieber"). In this case one takes a piece of paper and adjusts it under one side of the hammer butt flange. Correction tape for type writers does a good job for that. The result is that the hammer is on the correct course again. Once I visited the Renner factory and I saw some guys who did that job in piecework. I never so that job done so extremely quick and accurate. How do you say it on English? Gregor _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/">http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/</a> </blockquote> </body> </html>