<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2668" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Stéphane,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We had exactly the same experience with refelting of hammers by Desfougères'son.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We stopped working with him about 2 years ago, because of the decrease in quality.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That is why we now send our Pleyel hammers to Germany (Abel, mainly, although we only buy Renner heads for hammer changes, Abel does a good job in refelting) to have them refelt.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>They work really great, and they make really awesome refelting of the hammer butts of Pleyel grand actions. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It is like new. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I recommend you let them do this work (hammer refelting and butts refelting).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We have 2 Pleyel grands in our workshop right now, one is about to be finished, and the other one will be our next victim ;-)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tomorrow, I'll measure the boring distance on the new set Abel sent us if you want.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>About the wooden core, I suppose it is walnut.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I won't be able to give you the weighting of the hammer heads because Abel sends them already glued and ready to mount.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Quentin</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>