FWIW Patrick - glueing them back on will return the piano tone to match the rest of the unaffected hammers. That has been my experience every time. I'm not suggesting that it will sound as good as a new set of appropriate hammers, but it can return the piano to it's previous (nasty) un-felt-falling-off-hammers state. My experience has been that 99.9% of the time owners of these pianos would much rather "fix" it for $50 rather than many $100s. But it sounds like Kurt has a client that is willing to go a better way - what a wonderful thing. Terry Farrell On Jan 5, 2011, at 9:22 PM, J Patrick Draine 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/f8a17c07/attachment.htm>
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