Kimball brass flanges

[Farrell]

I recently converted a brass hammer butt rail to wooden flanges. This piano already had wooden-flanged dampers. Perhaps it would not be difficult to convert both rails on this Kimball to wooden flanges? I used Bill Spurlock's method. Very simple. Very successful.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Cole" <tcole@cruzio.com>
To: <davidlovepianos@earthlink.net>; "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 12:28 AM
Subject: Re: Kimball brass flanges


> David,
> 
> I did one of these a few years ago. Schaff had the damper plates and
> everything worked. I hope you don't have any broken fingers, though. Schaff
> cannot duplicate the double brass flanges.
> 
> Tom Cole
> 
> David Love wrote:
> 
> > I've got a customer with an old Kimball with double brass flanges (hammer
> > flange and damper flange) on one rail.  Plates are snapping like twigs and
> > replacement parts are a thread mismatch.  Damper flanges have a built in
> > spring in the plate and replacement parts seem unavailable.  I would
> > welcome suggestions (or volunteers who want this job), though the memory of
> > Babe Ruth's piano keeps echoing in the deep recesses of my mind.
> >
> > David Love
> > davidlovepianos@earthlink.net
> >
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