<!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 5.50.4134.100" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is from another tech who does = regulation and some hammer hanging but went with the prehungs this time. She = thought it was a real pain to space and align this way and still doesn't like = it.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Keith Roberts</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=Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no href="mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no">Richard Brekne</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 29, 2003 = 10:39 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Steinway bore = angles</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>I think you'd be best off by having a look see for = yourself. Course you already knew that, but it brings up nicely the subject = matter of how much we can trust an owners assessment of an instrument... and how = much we cant. In anycase one needs to be real carefull about making any = suggestions or comments based on other then first hand information... yes ??? <P>Cute !! :) <P>Cheers Keith <P>RicB <P>Keith Roberts wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE"><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-1>You're = right, my misunderstanding. She said normally they were  angled across = the strings one way and now they were they opposite. What she meant was = the string angle is about twelve degrees and the hammer is angled 18 = degrees. Usually it's less than the string angle. Spacing and string = alignment was very difficult. This was on a "M". The hammers were prehung from = Steinway. Still doesn't seem right to me.</FONT></FONT><FONT = face=Arial><FONT size=-1>Keith Roberts</FONT></FONT> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">Get outa here !! :).... Bass hammers angled the same as the tenor = ??????? And it aint even April 1st :) <P>RicB <P>Keith Roberts wrote:</P></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>-- <BR>Richard Brekne <BR>RPT, N.P.T.F. <BR>UiB, Bergen, Norway = <BR><A href="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> = <BR><A = href="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html">http://home.broad= park.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</A> <BR><A = href="http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html">http://www.hf.uib= .no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html</A> <BR>  </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>