<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16481" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM>Hi Phil</EM></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM>  The upright part of this exercise is rather a new venture & both times on Steinway uprights which received new butts & shanks.  Knowing that the problem children notes are always in the same area/octave 5 & 6, I just left the shanks a bit long & starting experimenting. It really helps to have a nice tight dry shank to hammer fit so positiong for optimal sound can be done without glue.</EM></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM>  Make sense. We are currently rebuilding  a beautiful 1904 Fischer upright & I will pay more attention tonally to it the killer ocatave than I would have in the past.  Since Steinways are the most common piano we work on It is these I am most familiar with & am prepared for this up front. </EM></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM>   However we are completing a BB Mason with a mild but V shaped strike line between the first & second capo are. IE notes 70 ish are the closest to the player but only by 2 to 3 MM.</EM></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM>  </EM></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM>  Dale Erwin</EM></STRONG></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Dale... I read the request for your hammer positioning method. I understand <BR>how you remove and reglue grand hammers down the shanks for optimal tone (I <BR>was at your PA PTG class), but what is your method on a vertical where the <BR>shank holes don't go all the way through the hammer molding? Do you test <BR>each hammer in the piano, cutting the shanks as you go?<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR><BR>Philip Jamison<BR>West Chester, PA</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR><DIV><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">Get a sneak peek of the all-new <A title="http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour/?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000982" href="http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour/?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000982" target="_blank">AOL.com</A>.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>