[pianotech] Appropriate replacement hammers for Winter spinet?

Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft alliedpianocraft at hotmail.com
Thu Jan 6 05:20:46 MST 2011


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:
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>> Why not just glue all the felts you have back on? 
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>> 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. 
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>> 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.
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> Fair enough - just thought I'd throw that out there. Sounds like you're headed in the right direction.
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>> A bit off the topic, has anyone here ever done a full rebuild on a spinet?
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> 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.
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