Yes, I service that piano's brother. Very nice piano and I love the way they put it together. Took a second or two to figure how to disassemble it for service. Fun little piano. Al - High Point, NC On Jan 5, 2011, at 11:41 PM, Terry Farrell wrote: > On Jan 5, 2011, at 8:50 PM, Kurt Baxter 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. > > Fair enough - just thought I'd throw that out there. Sounds like you're headed in the right direction. > >> A bit off the topic, has anyone here ever done a full rebuild on a spinet? > > A spinet? Well, not just ANY spinet - how 'bout a 1948 Wurly spinet from Mars (or, obviously from somewhere else in the solar system)? Sorry for the poor quality pictures, but these were taken by my first digital camera a good ten years ago. > > Terry Farrell > > > <May25_08.jpg> > > <May25_11.jpg> > > <May25_07.jpg> > > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110106/6b77f0fb/attachment.htm>
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