Les, what you said is true: replacing the hammer set is the best solution. However, it is well to be prepared for those pianos that are old or not worth a new set of hammers, or the owner can't afford a new set. Piano technicians should be prepared for any eventuality. On a good grade piano one should insist on replacing the hammers and refuse to do anything less. It just occurred to me that perhaps CAUT members would not be faced with this either/or situation. Ted Simmons >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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