Seems like it could be a really useful thing in a university situation where there is a need to improve a lot of pianos fairly quickly. The price Barrie Heaton mentioned would be: CURRENCY CONVERSION RESULTS: 120.00 GBP British Pounds is equivalent to $203.17 USD American Dollars. Wonder how much more new knuckles and repinning would add to the cost? Avery >Is anyone on this side of the pond re-covering hammers? Sounds like a >great idea. >James Grebe >R.P.T. from St. Louis >pianoman@inlink.com >"Only my best is good enough" > >---------- >> From: Barrie Heaton <Piano@forte.airtime.co.uk> >> To: pianotech@ptg.org >> Subject: Re: Recovering Hammers >> Date: Sunday, November 09, 1997 7:42 AM >> >> Hi Ron, >> SNIP >> >> I did a Chappell grand not long ago it cost me 120.00 pounds for the re- >> cover including underfeltr and stapeled turn around time 10 days. They >> worked out really nice. A colleague of mine has just had ten sets re- >> covered for a School in Cambridge, over the summer break. There is no >> way he could have done that by replacing the heads. The School is >> absolutely over the moon he says. >> >> In the U.K. you have three Companies who re-cover one is on the Web but >> no email as yet. I believe there is no Companies in the U.S. who re- >> cover but I may be wrong. ___________________________ Avery Todd, RPT Moores School of Music University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-4893 713-743-3226 atodd@uh.edu http://www.uh.edu/music/
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