New Steinway style Abel wippens no Available

[Erwinspiano@aol.com]

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Hi List  
    I've used the Abel shanks & flanges for  quite a few years for Steinway , 
Mason & Hamlin & Others with excellent  results. I have found the quality 
,geometry & the maple made parts to be  very consistent.  excellent  pinning, 
traveling.  The overall  wood machining is very crisp & the knuckles are really 
nice. Firm &  round. 
  Customer service is always  responsive.   Whenever I've been the first one 
to make a  suggestion to the Brooks limited folks or notice an anomaly, I 
don't get the "we  never heard of that before". Or "nobody's else has complained 
of this  yet". But, when I am first to notice something the  response is always 
a genuine concern to fix the problem & they got  fixed! That's personal 
service.
   I find the Abel parts to be as good as any  parts out there. I enjoy the 
complete shank sets being a bit thinned  to  more closely resemble the weight & 
strength charachteristics of the  original Maple shanks offered bySteinway & 
Mason &( Others as well).  This also makes burn in way easier & adds less 
shank weight to the strike  weight. The flanges fit the rails well & initial 
amounts of traveling is  normal. 
  I recently installed  set of the new Abel Steinway  wippens.  I experienced 
very little traveling & beautiful smooth  repitition lever tops which means 
minimum amounts of friction with the  knuckle.  The all maple parts are closer 
to the original weight of the OEM  Steinway parts.
  The pinning is excellent. Overall it's a beautiful  part. For me One very 
happy advantage is that it has an original type  butterfly repetition spring 
which is easy to adjust as were the old style  wippens. Also these wippens  held 
side by side with the originals are  right on the money.  The jack angle/ 
profile & jack height is the same  as oem as  is the repitition tower & center 
pin placement. The  over all height of the wippen is just slightly taller.     
   Now if they start coming with interchangeable  heels then everyone will 
love this.  If you haven't tried these, I  highly recommend them especially in 
light of the troubles the OEM parts have  had . It's always good to have more 
parts suppliers & selection  available to the trade. Competition is good for 
the industry
  Hey, Just remember how it was 15 years ago.   we had lousy parts & not much 
selection. Today we have several suppliers  which offer excellent parts. We 
have it good , don't you think? Any body else  use these yet..... & why not?
   Cheers
  Dale Erwin

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