<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16481" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>Jim,</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>Thanks for the kind comments.</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>Avery,</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>We are not able to stock sets of pre-hung hammers here in California, but can special order them for music schools / universities by serial number.  In BYU's case it took about 2 1/2 months to get 6 sets from Japan, then the 7th set came a month or so later.  We did something similar for UNLV a few years back also.</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>So if there are plans to replace hammers in the Kawais in your school, get in touch with me or Mark Wisner here at Kawai.</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left> Don Mannino    <HR tabIndex=-1> From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Avery Todd Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 12:24 PM To: College and University Technicians Subject: Re: [CAUT] Kawai prehung hammers - Very good! </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Hi Jim, </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>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. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Avery  </DIV> <DIV>On 8/2/07, Jim Busby <<A href="mailto:jim_busby@byu.edu">jim_busby@byu.edu</A>> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <DIV lang=EN-US link="blue" vlink="purple"> <DIV> 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; <OL style="MARGIN-TOP: 0in" type=1> <LI>New shanks flanges and hammers <LI>Complete restringing <LI>Recondition agraffes <LI>Dressing of v-bar and other friction points <LI>Repinned hammer rail and balanciers <LI>New "Crescendo" front and balance rail punchings <LI>Rebushing of lyre, underlevers, etc. <LI>Other "misc." stuff and complete regulation, tunings voicing, etc. </LI></OL>   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    </DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>