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<DIV>Well, Pris Rappaport is an outstanding technician, worked in a couple of
European piano factories. I may have been missing something...not that
unusual for me...this was a class on factory hammer hanging. They do not
travel the shanks before hanging the hammers and apparently the hammers were
traveled by burning in? This was at our California State Convention
some years ago and I was the exhibits chair and running around...</DIV>
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<DIV>David I.</DIV>
<DIV><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>*********** REPLY SEPARATOR
***********<BR><BR>On 2/22/01 at 9:06 AM Richard Brekne wrote:</FONT></DIV>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid">I
would have to say that this class you took was not the best class ever given.
At least they way you describe it. Perhaps you missed out on some of the most
important points the person was making ?? You say you only took part of the
class ??
<P>David Ilvedson wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE"> <FONT size=-1>List,</FONT> <FONT
size=-1>I remember a class I (partially) took from Pris Rappaport some years
ago on hammer hanging. She wanted to make a point about not needing to
travel the shanks before hanging the hammers. She purposely shimmed a
flange on each student's jig with traveling paper before the class hung
their hammers. Apparently burning in the shanks would do the trick...I
still can't figure this out...I can understand burning in the shanks to
align the hammers but how does this travel hammers?</FONT> <FONT
size=-1>David I.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>-- <BR>Richard Brekne <BR>RPT, N.P.T.F. <BR>Bergen, Norway <BR><A
href="mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no">mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no</A>
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