No experience installing anything like that, but wouldn't it be about the same as having a piano that's been sitting unplayed for 20 years, minus the dust? I'd probably opt for Abels or Renner Blues unless Kawai is sending out the 20 year old hammers for free. I service a GS-60 that someone else installed what I'd guess to be Abels, and the owner prefers it to the original hammers. Says it gives him a Steinway sound for a Kawai price. I don't know about that, but he loves it. Tanner --- On Wed, 8/4/10, denisikeler at aol.com <denisikeler at aol.com> wrote: From: denisikeler at aol.com <denisikeler at aol.com> Subject: [CAUT] New hammers for Kawai GS-60 To: caut at ptg.org Date: Wednesday, August 4, 2010, 4:28 PM List, I have a customer with a Kawai GS-60 that I'm replacing hammers, shanks, and flanges this month. Kawai has the original hammer for that piano in stock! My question is, would these hammers sound good after sitting on the shelf for twenty years? Kind of scares me a little, like for example, I would not buy a twenty year old tire that's never been driven on! I'm interested in a few opinions about the potential deterioration of unused hammers that are old. Thanks Denis Ikeler -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100804/524d21f4/attachment.htm>
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