> Hi all, > > Please list your best guestimate for replacing all the hammer flanges on a > 48" upright of asian perswasion! you don't mention why you need to, replacement in SA is a total luxury with cost of imports, however to undo tapes and take off a set of hammers about 45 mins, unsrcrew butts & remove 30 mins, reshape hammers 6-8 at a time in vice 45min - 1 1/4 hours , assuming your new flanges are already centred another 1 1/2 hours to put flanges on hammers and back on (if new centre pins needed about 1 1/2 - 2 hours more). > Please include time to reshape hammers, regulate and voice the > instrument...yes it does have french butts. (i.e. the kind with a screw on > butt plate). if no other action work to be done Regulate/tune/voice etc. upto 16 hours, so about 3 days total with no interuptions. Brian Lawson ----------------------------------------------- Lawsonic Pianoforte Services PO Box 751097 Garden View 2047 South Africa Voice Mail +27 (0)88 127 6584 http://www.bigfoot.com/~lawsonic
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