Hello all! Thank you for all of your responses to my post. I have taken the advice of most of the tech's and spoke with Wally Brooks and went ahead to have his shop perform the hammer services as well as new shanks and flanges. This will certainly give my the needed time to properly attend to the key bushings as well as make precious time for other projects in the shop. Thanks for you recommendation! I haven't spoken with my client (the music teacher) yet but she has already O.K.'d other repairs items so I feel that if she can help with the price of the parts then I will be happy. Otherwise, I agree with Barrie's post saying that it is good to leave the music teacher with a good name or else face the "teachers wrath" and as Mark had mentioned that I will probably end up going back to cure annoyances that can be avoided by choosing to do the repair right the first time. Thank you Newton for your incredible insight on this and the many other questions that pass this screen. Have you written any books on related subjects? I would like know.....Thank you Keith McGavern for having a different view. I have bolstered knuckles on a small scale before with yarns and heavy threads but never enough to cover a major section of the action. I yielded good results but not a permanent solution. David Chadwick Las Vegas "Can you feel the tension!"
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