<!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 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Serge wrote:</FONT></DIV> <DIV>Renner and Abel make about 35000 of hammer head each every years. = If you<BR>are willing to order a lot of units they can do any thing you = want on<BR>yours own specification and quality. At the lowest price possible...=20<BR>and do not forget that those pianos was not suppose = to be sold outside<BR>of Japan and this was probability a part of the agreement.=20<BR>=20<BR>=20<BR>Serge Harel<BR>Piano hammer = maker<BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello Serge,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I do not work on these pianos anymore, = it was just an answer that raised into my mind as I was looking at the sides of a = new Renner hammer set labelled "Louis Renner Stuttgart".</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So according to what you say, these = pianos are equipped with hammers made for the japanese market...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Q.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>