<!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></HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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></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> Wednesday, May 28, 2003 = 9:27 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Steinway bore = angles</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Get outa here !! :).... Bass hammers angled the same as = the tenor ??????? And it aint even April 1st :) <P>RicB <P>Keith Roberts wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE"> <STYLE></STYLE> <FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-1>I just talked a tech the said = they just got a new set of S&S hammers that had a letter with them proclaiming = new bore angles, not to freak out.</FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT = size=-1>The bass hammers were bored the same direction as the treble section. I = thought it had to be a mistake. Anybody else get any S&S hammers with = the bass section angled to the left or across the strings instead of parallel = to them?</FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-1>Keith Roberts</FONT></FONT></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>