Ric, I do the repair this way when needed because it's much more efficient, the hammers still all match each other when I'm finished, and the end results are satisfactory. Your response seems to assume two things. There are a lot of spare hammers lying around, and the piano is in a shop. But I do not have a shop. When I find this problem I am in someone's house, and since I do not replace sets of hammers, I do not have lots of used ones lying around. Even if I did, it's going to take some time to find one that matches, and I wouldn't carry all those old hammers around in my car anyway. The piano is usually fair to poor quality and/or condition, so regluing the felt is a very acceptable repair in my opinion. Last month I came across a worn out studio piano with ten hammers like this. Using CA glue it took me 20 minutes to repair all of them. It would have taken much longer to replace them, and it usually looks pretty bad, too. Of course if the piano had some decent worth, it really should have a whole new set of hammers. Regards, Clyde Richard Brekne wrote: > Never could figure out why anyone would want to bother with this kind of > repair, unless perhaps the piano was of some ancient nature that it had > unique hammers or something of the sort. > > With so many spares lying around, why not just pop on a new hammer.... > needle it to match the voicing well enough, and be done with it ? > > > > Jack Houweling wrote: > > > I am trying to glue this hammer felt back on and am having a > > problem with the glue. I have been trying a white glue and clamps but > > it does not hold. What kind of glue recommended?
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