English word for that?

[Moffatt]

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Bob



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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregor _" <karlkaputt at hotmail.com>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 12:28 AM
Subject: English word for that?


>I went to the Frankfurt music fair yesterday and scrolled through the Piano 
> Nomenclatur book by Schimmel. There I found a German word which I never 
> heard of, the verb "schiebern". I know what it means, but I usually say "to 
> remove schieber" (schieber as a noun). Funny: in that book there was no 
> english word for that, the only one translation was the Italian one. It 
> means the following:
> 
> When you move a few hammers to the strings by hand and you see that one 
> hammer has a left-hand (or right hand) twist so that the middle of the 
> hammer does not hit the middle of the 3 strings, one should regulate that. I 
> mean that the hammer makes not only a forward, but also a sideward movement 
> ("schieber"). In this case one takes a piece of paper and adjusts it under 
> one side of the hammer butt flange. Correction tape for type writers does a 
> good job for that. The result is that the hammer is on the correct course 
> again. Once I visited the Renner factory and I saw some guys who did that 
> job in piecework. I never so that job done so extremely quick and accurate.
> 
> How do you say it on English?
> 
> Gregor
> 
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