Bechstein-restauration

[Horace Greeley]

Barrie,

I suspect that I am not alone in being interested in the recovering of
hammers.

Years ago, I used to use a company in Canada to do this on old squares and
things,
but they went out of business around the time of the flood, and I haven't been
in antique circles for some time.  If this service is available, at even
moderately
outrageous cost, some pianos might well be worth the extra expense and effort.

Thanks in advance!

Horace


At 08:17 PM 3/21/97 +0000, you wrote:
>Yes, your on the right tracks.  Les and Horace had described density to
>you very well.  May I add though,  the customers requrements should be
>taken in to account.  I misinterpretered a customers request on his
>Bechstine he said it had lost its "umph" my neighbour has a lot of
>"umph"  His neighbour had a brand new Yamaha which I tune.  Which is
>very bright and lovely bass.  So I assumed he wanted a bright piano.
>Boy was I mistaken it took me six months and a loot of visits to tone
>those hard hammers down.  What he meant by umph he wanted a nicer bass
>but he still wanted his Bechstein sound which is a soft mellow treble
>compared with a Yamaha.
>
>Some of the Bechstein Grands start at gage 13 at the top so a dense
>hammer is not necessary to produce a quality sound.  That's why
>personally on grands around the 1920 and down.  I tend to go for re-
>covering rather than replacing,  it is a bit like buying a set of pre-
>hung hammers the re-coverer matches the original felt so all you'll have
>to do is replace the rollers and re-centrer the hammers plus they are a
>little bit cheaper.
>
>Hope this is of some help.
>
>Regards,
>
>Barrie.
>
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>In article <09151041200001@DEBCOM.BE>, Peter Kestens
><KESTENS.P@Debcom.be> writes
>>PETER KESTENS
>>Het Muziekinstrumentenatelier
>>BELGIUM
>>KESTENS.P@Debcom.be
>> To Barrie Heaton,
>>
>>Could the density of the felt being of any importancy?  The higher it is,
>>the more it weights?
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