Piano parts needed

Clark Battle clarkbattle@hotmail.com
Sat, 22 Jul 2000 00:14:25 PDT


Thanks for the advice but i should have been more clear.  Forgive me if i am 
not using the perfect terminology for this, i am not a trained professional. 
  I have designed and am building a completely new kind of keyboard 
instrument that bears very little resemblance to the piano.  It only has 40 
keys so i dont need a complete piano set of parts.  I have redesigned the 
Wood & Brooks action and carefully built all the parts by hand so i dont 
need anything but the hammers and tuners (i can cut the dampers myself).  I 
need 40+ (preferably undrilled) tenor sized hammers and 80 tuning pins.  
Since this is a prototype i dont want ultra-high quality stuff, but decent 
enough for a proof of concept.  I can modify the design to fit whatever 
parts i can get so the exact dimensions are not important.  I did find 
someone who could get me a set of 60 hammers for around $230.   This sounds 
very expensive to me since i've seen entire pianos for $400 used.  Does this 
sound like a reasonable deal?  Maybe someone has some spare hammers they 
could sell me for less?  Thank You.

Clark Battle
Seattle, WA
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