[CAUT] Kawai prehung hammers - Very good!

[Don Mannino]

Jim,
 
Thanks for the kind comments.
 
Avery,
 
We are not able to stock sets of pre-hung hammers here in California,
but can special order them for music schools / universities by serial
number.  In BYU's case it took about 2 1/2 months to get 6 sets from
Japan, then the 7th set came a month or so later.  We did something
similar for UNLV a few years back also.
 
So if there are plans to replace hammers in the Kawais in your school,
get in touch with me or Mark Wisner here at Kawai.
 
Don Mannino 

  
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From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
Avery Todd
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 12:24 PM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Kawai prehung hammers - Very good!



	Hi Jim, 
	 
	I didn't realize that Kawai did prehung hammers. I've bought
them from Yamaha, Wally Brooks & Pianotek! When I was still working at
the university, it saved a LOT of time! Nice to hear that Kawai does
that also. 
	 
	Avery 
	
	 
	On 8/2/07, Jim Busby <jim_busby at byu.edu> wrote: 

		List,

		 

		Just a report on Kawai prehung hammers/shanks and
flanges. We bought 7 sets for KG2As, KG2Ds, and a KG2E. I usually don't
like prehung hammers but these were wonderful! All details were
immaculate, and in each set there were only one or two that even needed
traveling or burning! Not only that, but right out of the box they
sounded great on the piano. I give Kawai an "A plus" for these, and the
cost was less than I usually pay for hammers alone. Kudos to Don and
Kawai. 

		 

		Vince tells me he had the same experience; Very good.

		 

		On a side note, with the (6) students working many hours
we developed a system to complete the following in TWO SHOP DAYS;

		1.	New shanks flanges and hammers 
		2.	Complete restringing 
		3.	Recondition agraffes 
		4.	Dressing of v-bar and other friction points 
		5.	Repinned hammer rail and balanciers 
		6.	New "Crescendo" front and balance rail punchings

		7.	Rebushing of lyre, underlevers, etc. 
		8.	Other "misc." stuff and complete regulation,
tunings voicing, etc. 

		 

		In essence, it's like a new piano. The students enjoyed
this process and although the first one took more time (6 days), after
they got the hang of it it seemed like our system came together the
faster we went. In all we did 14 pianos this summer. Buying the Kawai
hammers saved us about one full day and big bucks. (Maybe I'm too slow
with all the hammer work...) 

		 

		Anyway, while it seemed a bit like NASCAR this summer it
was fun and the experience for the students was tremendous. 

		 

		Jim Busby BYU

		 

		 


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