John Musselwhite wrote: > >The reason I put it there is because the factory specs call for it to be >there. Normally I don't take all the hammers off at once anyway, so I just >leave the original cloth if it and the rail in good shape. > >When I service a Steinway for a customer one of the ways I sell a major job >is by emphasising the use of Steinway parts and techniques. While other >parts may be more suitable either for technical or personal preference many >of my customers have insisted on "original equipment parts" and sometimes >even want the end-flaps off the new cartons and samples of the original parts. > >While replacing the damper back-action, hammers etc. with Renners may be >practical, I've run into more than a few owners to whom NY factory parts are >what makes it a "Steinway". > > John > >John Musselwhite, RPT Calgary, Alberta Canada >musselj@cadvision.com john.musselwhite@67.cambo.cuug.ab.ca I would submit that if our mission is to rebuild a piano to "steinway specs", then using Steinway parts is not always the best way to do so. I have always found Renner parts to have a quality control far beyond anything S&S has been able to provide. I too have clients that want the "Genuine Steinway" box. I try to convince them (often quite succesfully) that what I hear them telling me is that they want the piano to feel and sound like a Steinway, and the best way for me to provide that for them in a rebuild is to use the highest quality parts available. Just because it has the name on the box, doesn't mean it does the job. John McKone
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