Hi there Clyde Clyde Hollinger wrote: > > Ric, > > I do the repair this way when needed because it's much more efficient, the > hammers still all match each other when I'm finished, and the end results > are satisfactory. Your response seems to assume two things. There are a > lot of spare hammers lying around, and the piano is in a shop. I understand the point about having a field job and spare hammers a long ways away. I personally carry a box of about 100 various hammers when I'm on the road. As for fitting the rest... Always seemed to me if there was a way of guarenteeing a hammer that stood out from the others then it was by reglueing. The hammer is bound to have much less tension in it then those that hadnt come loose. I dunno,,, I just always found it much easier to "match" by picking an appropriate sized hammer and needling it as needed. > But I do not have a shop. When I find this problem I am in someone's house, > and since I do not replace sets of hammers, I do not have lots of used ones > lying around. Even if I did, it's going to take some time to find one that > matches, and I wouldn't carry all those old hammers around in my car > anyway. The piano is usually fair to poor quality and/or condition, so > regluing the felt is a very acceptable repair in my opinion. I can buy your reasoning well enough. Especially that last bit... especially especially if you dont stock leftovers from new hammersets. And you are right in that a glue repair is far better then just walking away, thats for sure. > > Last month I came across a worn out studio piano with ten hammers like > this. Using CA glue it took me 20 minutes to repair all of them. It would > have taken much longer to replace them, and it usually looks pretty bad, > too. Of course if the piano had some decent worth, it really should have a > whole new set of hammers. > Good points to be sure. It does take a bit longer to change them out, and you do have to voice them, and it usually is on a piano that really doesnt resolve better then the glue repair will cover to begin with..... still... grin... well.. you know me :) > Regards, Clyde > Cheers Clyde RicB -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html
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