[pianotech] Grand hammer weight

[Paul T Williams]

Try the Abel Naturals from Wally Brooks.  They can figure it out.  It's 
worked many times for me on various makes of pianos.  You'll have to send 
in the sample hammers and shanks from the ends of each section. It's a bit 
harder when they've been filed down to nothing, but I think they do a 
great job. 

I heard this summer at the Convention, from Andre Orebeek, that he only 
recommends one major filing only on a set??!!  With my limited budget at 
my university, I can't really go for that, but in theory, that makes the 
most sense for the "every day" grand in a home, and helps keep a good 
regulation possible.  The more I learn and see here, I could file and 
regulate every month! (I don't, however..trust me!)  I try to get about 
5-7 years more or less per set.  Uprights more like 10 as they're not 
played often or hard like the piano majors!!~

How big is the grand?  I imagine a small one, being in a bar.  Man those 
things sure get the crap beat out of them, eh? I've seen plenty...and 
nobody wants to spend the dough to make them nice enough to bring in good 
players...then again, most bar players don't really notice much....they 
all sound better near closing time! ;>)  Billy Joel coming anytime?

Paul




From:
tnrwim at aol.com
To:
pianotech at ptg.org
Date:
09/30/2011 02:01 PM
Subject:
Re: [pianotech] Grand hammer weight



Arlie
 
Send a sampling of hammers to yor hammer maker. I would suggest you also 
repalce the shanks and flanges, so send those, too.
 
Wim 


-----Original Message-----
From: Arlie Rauch <adarpub at midrivers.com>
To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Fri, Sep 30, 2011 8:57 am
Subject: [pianotech] Grand hammer weight

I am looking at replacing the hammers on a 1932 Kimball grand.  The piano 
was 
formerly in a bar.  The old hammers are sanded down, in some cases almost 
to the 
wood, so that regulation currently is all but impossible.  My question is, 
how 
do I decide what weight of hammers to use?

Arlie Rauch


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