<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear list,</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you very much for all your = replies. They will be useful to put more pressure on the administration to replace the = hammers. Another tech who was in charge of this piano, before me, = told me that since the rebuilding was done in 1992, this problem of broken = strings in the treble was there and apparently even worst (like three to four = strings per week).</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would like to have suggestion for the = kind of hammers you would use. I think more of a soft hammer like Baldwin used.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanking you in advance,</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jean-Marc Beauchamp, RPT</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Piano Tech, Université de Montréal</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>