Working With The Hammers![]() This is the first of a few articles i want to put out on specific adjustments and techniques we use to repair different parts of your instrument. I hope by educating a little bit about the function or all the parts of the piano we can better understand why our pianos go out of tune or begining to stop sounding and working the way that we want them to.
Other than the strings themselves, hammers tend to be the number one reason our pianos begin to sound off or get thrown out of tune. This is because the material the hammers are made of is felt, and while the felt is designed to take a beating it needs to be soft for sound of the strike to be softened. Because of this the hammers ends can get warped and groove lines where the hammer strikes can occur. If you want to take a quick look to check the health of your hammers you can do so fairly easily. What you want to look for is a soft roundness on the end with no grooves and no discoloration form one to the next. If you notice deep grooves in your hammers that is an indicator that they need to be changed or at the very least filed down and made round again. |
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