My last upright hammer replacement I used a set of Abel "Naturals" and quite liked them. They sounded fine right out of the box. It was a full size upright though... Do you think the Abels would be too firm for a WW2 era spinet? The scale seems really low tension, and that is part of what they like about the sound. -kurt On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:22 PM, J Patrick Draine <jpdraine at gmail.com> wrote: > Oh please don't do the "just glue them back on" trip. Really, it sounds > much better with new Ronsens. But no, the one time I did this the only other > "new parts" were bridle straps. Patrick > > > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Kurt Baxter <fortefile at gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> *Why not just glue all the felts you have back on? * >> >> >> -- >> >> I am still considering this option, but being that there are about 7 >> missing felts, once I find salvaged hammers that fit, match/drill/glue those >> hammers *in place* (and glue/clamp the 12 lifting felts), or pull the >> whole thing and take it to the shop, the cost could be well on way towards a >> new set of hammers, AND with the added risk that that rest of the hammers >> could fail at any time. >> >> Plus, this client actually seems interested in doing the job right. It's >> just giving me a bit of whiplash that I found a spinet owner interested in >> doing any piano repair job right. >> >> A bit off the topic, has anyone here ever done a full rebuild on a spinet? >> >> >> >> -kurt >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110105/42cefd0b/attachment.htm>
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