Dave, Steinway and Ronsen hammers are very similar. Abel hammers are well made but very different in hardness and tone. If you're going for the original tone and color go with the Steinway or Ronsen. If you want a brighter tone and don't want to juice, go with the Abel naturals. Al Guecia From: piannaman at aol.com Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 11:09 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: (a first for me...) new hammers for 1927 s and s L Liszters, I have a customer, who also happens to have a son who's a classmate of my son, who has an old L that's in pretty good shape, except the hammers are shot. No room for shaping left on them. But the strings are good, board is good, block is good . It's pretty solid all-round. So after years of being pretty much strictly a home-service guy, I'm going to jump in and put a new set of hammers on this piano. It will be the first complete set I've ever replaced. I have had a few suggestions from folks on type of hammer, notably Steinway(sticking with the original, expensive) and Abel (more ready out-of-the-box, cheaper). I like the Ronsen VFGs that are on my Mason, too, but am not sure they'd match up well with the Steinway. I was assuming that I'd go with Steinway, but I need to ask the customer if authentic Steinway parts are necessary. Since I'm not tooled up to bore my own hammers, I'll probably get them pre-bored/pre-hung. Any suggestions or input would be welcomed. Dave Stahl, RPT Dave Stahl Piano Service dstahlpiano at sbcglobal.net dstahlpiano.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Find phone numbers fast with the New AOL Yellow Pages! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20081002/6cd68b6c/attachment-0001.html
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