Hi Jim, I didn't realize that Kawai did prehung hammers. I've bought them from Yamaha, Wally Brooks & Pianotek! When I was still working at the university, it saved a LOT of time! Nice to hear that Kawai does that also. Avery On 8/2/07, Jim Busby <jim_busby at byu.edu> wrote: > > List, > > > > Just a report on Kawai prehung hammers/shanks and flanges. We bought 7 > sets for KG2As, KG2Ds, and a KG2E. I usually don't like prehung hammers but > these were wonderful! All details were immaculate, and in each set there > were only one or two that even needed traveling or burning! Not only that, > but right out of the box they sounded great on the piano. I give Kawai an "A > plus" for these, and the cost was less than I usually pay for hammers alone. > Kudos to Don and Kawai. > > > > Vince tells me he had the same experience; Very good. > > > > On a side note, with the (6) students working many hours we developed a > system to complete the following in TWO SHOP DAYS; > > 1. New shanks flanges and hammers > 2. Complete restringing > 3. Recondition agraffes > 4. Dressing of v-bar and other friction points > 5. Repinned hammer rail and balanciers > 6. New "Crescendo" front and balance rail punchings > 7. Rebushing of lyre, underlevers, etc. > 8. Other "misc." stuff and complete regulation, tunings voicing, > etc. > > > > In essence, it's like a new piano. The students enjoyed this process and > although the first one took more time (6 days), after they got the hang of > it it seemed like our system came together the faster we went. In all we did > 14 pianos this summer. Buying the Kawai hammers saved us about one full day > and big bucks. (Maybe I'm too slow with all the hammer work…) > > > > Anyway, while it seemed a bit like NASCAR this summer it was fun and the > experience for the students was tremendous. > > > > Jim Busby BYU > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20070802/f23ea78d/attachment.html
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