Wim and others, Unfortunately Kawai's production process is set up in such a way that the factory is not willing to send us hammers pre-mounted on shanks for regular use in our parts stock. For this church, you should order the shanks and hammers and install them. I don't know if the new hammers would fit, or if we have hammers in stock, without knowing the model number, though. Send me a private message with the model and serial number and I'll let you know, Wim. For College / University music schools I have been able to get the factory to supply the pre-mounted hammers on a special order basis, with the serial number of each piano. If we do not give them the school name and the piano model and serial number, the hammers never come. With the information it takes a month or two to get them. The price BYU paid was standard. There is minimal mark-up on most of the parts we sell except for gray market pianos. So if the piano is one of ours here at Kawai America, they are sold at a low price. When we are sold out of a particular model, both the Renner and Abel hammers work well on Kawai pianos, I think. Brooks Ltd has all of our bore specs, and can pre-bore by model if desired. Don Mannino _____ From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of wimblees at aol.com Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 6:47 PM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] Kawai hammers Don I have a church with a 40 year old Kawai. I gave them a bid for new hammers. Will the new hammers work on that one, too? Wim -----Original Message----- From: Don Mannino <DMannino at kawaius.com> To: pianowork at yahoo.com; caut at ptg.org Sent: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 6:25 am Subject: Re: [CAUT] Kawai hammers Rolf, The current RX hammers which are available are not hard to work with. They are made somewhat similar to Renner hammers, and voice with similar techniques. They start hard and bright, and need plenty of low and upper shoulder needling. For universities we can special order the set of hammers pre-mounted from the factory, so if you contact Me at Kawai with the serial number I will order the set for you. A set takes a couple months to arrive from Japan, and it makes the hammer job much easier to complete quickly. Jim Busby installed a few of these sets earlier this year - hopefully he can comment on the voicing process and how they are sounding after some use. Don Mannino dmannino at kawaius.com -----Original Message----- From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org <mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org?> ] On Behalf Of Rolf Von Walthausen Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 4:39 PM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: [CAUT] Kawai hammers Hello everyone: I have a piano faculty client with a KG-2A who needs a new set of hammers and would like me to use replacement Kawai hammers. I've never worked with these before and so would like to hear your experiences and any advice for getting these hammers to sound their best. Thanks for your help, and Eric good luck with all those Steinways at CCM. Rolf von Walthausen former CCM piano technician retired from institutional work & still kicking in the north woods... _____ Traveling over the river or through the woods this holiday season? Get the MapQuest Toolbar <http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1212816426x1200798402/aol?redir =http://www.mapquest.com/toolbar?ncid=emlwemqmq00000001> . Directions, Traffic, Gas Prices & More! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20081126/7f7d2779/attachment-0001.html>
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