Recovering Hammers query

[pianoman]

Is anyone on this side of the pond re-covering hammers?  Sounds like a
great idea.
James Grebe
R.P.T. from St. Louis
pianoman@inlink.com
"Only my best is good enough"

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> From: Barrie Heaton <Piano@forte.airtime.co.uk>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: Recovering Hammers
> Date: Sunday, November 09, 1997 7:42 AM
> 
> Hi Ron, 
> 
> Just send the hammers as is, they will do the rest.  On smaller grands
> which have a definite curve on the strike line at the bass brake you
> will find that they brake the glue joints so as to get the line
> straight that is normally only about five hammers no big deal to reset.
> 
> They are absolutely brilliant on small grands as the felt re-coverer
> matches the original weight and also reshapes them which takes a lot of
> hard work out, you can also get them to replace the rollers and re pin.
> its just like having a set of pre-hung hammers without as much work on
> the travel.  I personally fit my rollers, as I like Japanese Rollers. 
> 
> On larger grands I tend to go for replacement, just a personal
> preference.  With recovered hammers on the bigger grands you tend to
> have
> to apply more dope to get that sound in the top treb. 
> 
> As for durability in a university situation, I'm not so sure.... I have
> had no problems at all with them.
> 
> I did a Chappell grand not long ago it cost me 120.00 pounds for the re-
> cover including underfeltr and stapeled turn around time 10 days.  They
> worked out really nice.  A colleague of mine has just had ten sets re-
> covered for a School in Cambridge, over the summer break.  There is no
> way he could have done that by replacing the heads.  The School is
> absolutely over the moon he says.
> 
> In the U.K. you have three Companies who re-cover one is on the Web but
> no email as yet.  I believe there is no Companies in the U.S. who re-
> cover but I may be wrong.
> 
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> H. J.FLETCHER & NEWMAN LTD
> UNIT 10A, 
> DARTFORD TRADE PARK,
>  POWDER MILL LANE,
>  DARTFORD,
> KENT DA1 1QB  
> Tel: 01322 226441 
> Fax: 01322 278978
> 
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> http://www.airtime.co.uk/forte/heckscher/heck.htm
> HECKSCHER & CO,. Ltd
> 75 Bayham Street,
> London NW1 0AA
> Tel: 0173873043
> Fax: 01713873043
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> In article <Pine.SOL.3.95.971108184623.14915A-
> 100000@gorf.rs.itd.umich.edu>, Ron Torrella <torrella@umich.edu> writes
> >A colleague of mine wants to have a set of hammers re-covered and we've
> >only heard that Abel does this. Two part question:
> >
> >1. What is the procedure for sending hammers to be re-covered (ie., will
> >they take off the old felt and put on the new stuff?). If anyone has
> >experience with this, I'd appreciate an email with as much detail as can
> >be mustard.....er, mustered. We need to ketchup....never mind.
> >
> >2. Does anyone know of any *other* company (or -ies) that do this kind
of
> >re-felting?
> >
> >Messy buckets for all of the info, folks!
> >
> >                            Ron Torrella, RPT
> >                       Assistant Piano Technician
> >                         University of Michigan
> >                             School of Music
> >
> >
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