I've never replaced a whole set of butt leather - I have replaced the whole butt and that can work out pretty good. With the new butt you get not only new leather, but the felt underneath, new flange and bushings, new but felt, new catcher leather, and a new bridle tape, and a new return spring (depending on the type of butt you use). What are you hoping to accomplish by replacing the butt leather? The only times I've heard of techs replacing that part is with the old Baldwin Corfam problem. The problem was noise. On many older actions I notice that the butt felt compressing seems to cause the most problems because it's what regulates the jack position relative to the butt. This means you need more aftertouch in order to avoid bobbling hammers. If the butts are that worn you most likely will need new bridle tapes, and possibly catcher leather as well. Also the flange pinning will likely be uneven. Again it may make more sense to replace the whole part. On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Matthew Todd <toddpianoworks at att.net>wrote: > I will be sending a client a quote on replacing the hammer butt leather. > > Can you all share with me, from a pianists stand point, what this client > can expect from new leather? What she will feel as a difference from > before? > > Thanks! > > ***TODD PIANO WORKS* > Matthew Todd, Piano Technician > (979) 248-9578 > http://www.toddpianoworks.com > -- Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Olympia, WA www.pianova.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090410/6dd109a7/attachment.html>
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