<!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 6.00.6000.16705" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=MailContainerBody style="PADDING-RIGHT: 10px; PADDING-LEFT: 10px; PADDING-TOP: 15px" bgColor=#ffffff leftMargin=0 topMargin=0 CanvasTabStop="true" name="Compose message area"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Dave,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Steinway and Ronsen hammers are very similar. Abel hammers are well made but very different in hardness and tone. If you're going for the original tone and color go with the Steinway or Ronsen. If you want a brighter tone and don’t want to juice, go with the Abel naturals.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Al Guecia</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Tahoma"> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #f5f5f5"> <DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title="mailto:piannaman@aol.com
CTRL + Click to follow link" href="mailto:piannaman@aol.com">piannaman@aol.com</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, October 02, 2008 11:09 AM</DIV> <DIV><B>To:</B> <A title="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org
CTRL + Click to follow link" href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>Subject:</B> (a first for me...) new hammers for 1927 s and s L</DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Liszters,<BR><BR>I have a customer, who also happens to have a son who's a classmate of my son, who has an old L that's in pretty good shape, except the hammers are shot.  No room for shaping left on them.  But the strings are good, board is good, block is good . It's pretty solid all-round.  So after years of being pretty much strictly a home-service guy, I'm going to jump in and put a new set of hammers on this piano.  It will be the first complete set I've ever replaced.  <BR><BR>I have had a few suggestions from folks on type of hammer, notably Steinway(sticking with the original, expensive) and Abel (more ready out-of-the-box, cheaper). I like the Ronsen VFGs that are on my Mason, too, but am not sure they'd match up well with the Steinway.   </FONT><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I was assuming that I'd go with Steinway, but I need to ask the customer if authentic Steinway parts are necessary. </FONT><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Since I'm not tooled up to bore my own hammers, I'll probably get them pre-bored/pre-hung.  <BR><BR></FONT><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Any suggestions or input would be welcomed.   </FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV id=sig6848 style="CLEAR: both"><FONT size=+0>Dave Stahl, RPT<BR>Dave Stahl Piano Service<BR>dstahlpiano@sbcglobal.net<BR>dstahlpiano.net</FONT></DIV> <DIV class=aol_ad_footer id=u8CAF2B7FB6BE359-15F8-6C1><FONT style="FONT: 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF; COLOR: black"> <HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px"> Find phone numbers fast with the <A title=http://yellowpages.aol.com/?NCID=emlweusyelp00000001 href="http://yellowpages.aol.com/?NCID=emlweusyelp00000001" target=_blank>New AOL Yellow Pages</A>!</FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>