Actually, when encountering a piano which has several hammers which have the felt separating from the core, regluing the offenders is probably to be regarded as a temporary, band-aid approach, at best. The reason is that if half a dozen or so hammers have had their felt come unglued from the core, you can bet that the rest of the hammers are "thinking" about doing the same thing and, in time, will. The best course of action is therefore to replace the entire set with new. This is especially true if you encounter this problem in modern, Aeolian- built pianos, where its not uncommon to find entire sets coming unglued from the core. Of course staples that actually went all the way through the felt and into the core would have helped, but that might have added fifty cents or so to the cost of a set of hammers. Obviously Aeolian thought the cost was too high. Now they don't have to worry about such problems anymore! Les Smith lessmith@buffnet.net
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