Hardman Grand

[dporritt]

If you have a Rener sample kit, try the wippen with no heal and see what you
can assemble.  For out of production pianos the parts kit is indispensable.

dave

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David M. Porritt, RPT
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas
dporritt@swbell.net <mailto:dporritt@swbell.net>
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf
Of MMiccio@AOL.COM
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 1999 6:00 PM
To: pianotech@ptg.org
Subject: Re: Hardman Grand


Hi Avery and list,

I have the action and keys for a Hardman grand sitting here waiting for me
to
start replacing the action.  It was restrung a few years ago by someone else
and they put Yamaha hammers on the original shanks. It is now a little too
heavy and too bright.  and since the repetitions are comming apart at the
glue joints it was time to rebuild the action.  I am planning to go with
Renner-lite hammers and I am looking for a suggestion for new repetitions. I
had great sucess with the Renner-lite (Light weight) on a Bosendorfer
rebuild
I did last year, the only surprise was that they really were light!  I had
to
individually lead the hammer mouldings to match the original hammers, (added
almost a gram to each)  but they sang very well, with no need to harden, and
just normal voicing to bring out the roundness of the sound.

Does anyone have repetition recommendations?