pianotech-digest V1997 #789

Keith McGavern kam544@ionet.net
Tue, 19 May 1998 21:43:38 -0500 (CDT)


>Dave Peake, RPT posted:
>If you have to do a whole section, why not replace the hammers?

On this particular piano, it just seemed like the thing to do at the time.

>How much time
>does it take to buckskin one hammer?  How much time does it take to hang one
>hammer?

I didn't time it.

>4 or 5 hammers maybe, to save the customer money, and hopefully a full set
>later.

My objectives were to do it, see the results, and not spend money for new
hammers.  As it turned out, it was worth the time and effort, and
sufficiently met my expectations.

Keith A. McGavern
kam544@ionet.net
Registered Piano Technician
Oklahoma Chapter 731
Piano Technicians Guild
USA




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