Chickering brass flanges

[Wimblees@AOL.COM]

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In a message dated 4/6/01 7:10:01 PM Central Daylight Time, JIMRPT@AOL.COM 
writes:


> Wim;
> If you will recall two years ago (?) I reported on a Chickering rebuild 
> with 
> a set of these thingees.  There were numerous cracked hammer flanges and 
> all 
> of the rest were very brittle. I annealed the ones without cracks and 
> verrrrry carefully annealed and silver soldered the ones with cracks.  
> Results so far on the work is that this piano is used by three youngsters 
> taking music lessons and so far is standing up very well...i.e. no cracked 
> flanges. :-)
> Jim Bryant (FL)
> Note: This work was a "restoration" vs a 'rebuild' and that is what lead to 
> the effort to save the flanges.
> 
> 

Jim

Are you willing to take on another one of these jobs. As far as I can tell, 
none of the flanges are broken. When finished, the piano will be used in a 
recording studio. Although it will not be used all the time, it will get 
heavy use. Do you think the annealation will stand up to this kind of 
playing, over a long period of time. The recording studio is owned by two 
young guys, with great expectations. The piano belongs to one guy's mother, 
who is willing to give them the piano if they pay for the restoration. I want 
to replace the shanks and hammers, and restore the wippens. This piano will 
also get a new pin block and strings and a new finish. From what I can tell, 
it will be hell of sounding piano. I just don't want to have them spend 
$12000 only to have the hammer flanges crap out on them in a couple of years. 
Therefore, I wonder if this treatment is long lasting, or as Paul said, 
doesn't really have any effect at all.  

Wim

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