Used hammers for upright piano project

[Claudia Cimenti]

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Hi Terry,

I'm in Massachusetts.

I am sensitive to the fact that I am currently running up quite a bill 
getting a bunch of basic tools. Also, I would not mind the practice 
reshaping and replacing hammers once before putting on brand-new ones. I 
have much to learn.

Thanks for the tip about restringing the bass. The stings are indeed in 
pretty poor shape. I would rather call them tarnished than corroded, but I 
am convinced that does not do well for the tone.

The Leland has 85 keys, keys 1-10 are single wound and keys 11-28 are 
double wound.

Thanks for checking into this. I truly appreciate it.

Regards,
/Claudia


At 04:48 PM 5/7/2002 Tuesday, you wrote:
>Hello Claudia. I have a complete upright action that I've been tripping 
>over in my shop for the past few weeks. It is from a 1920s Starr upright 
>(the piano I learned to tune on - or almost anyway). It is in good to 
>excellent condition for it age. I'm quite sure the hammers have most of 
>their felt.
>
>I would encourage you to put new hammers on your piano. If the board and 
>bridges are in acceptable shape, simply restringing the bass can do 
>wonders for an old beater. Soundwise, new bass strings and new hammers 
>will often get you 70% or 80% of the way back to how the piano sounded 80 
>years ago (what I mean, is biggest bang for the buck).
>
>If you think you really want to use used hammers, let me know how many 
>bass notes your piano has and I'll see what I have.
>
>What neck of the woods are you located?
>
>Terry Farrell
>Tampa, Florida
>mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Claudia Cimenti" <claudia_cimenti@mail.com>
>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 5:52 PM
>Subject: Used hammers for upright piano project
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to restore a vintage upright to playing condition, for purely
> > educational purposes.
> >
> > I need to replace the hammers. Most hammers are worn down to the underfelt!
> >
> > I was wondering if someone on this list might have a used set of upright
> > hammers available that they would want to part with. I really do not want
> > to spend $130+ for a brand new set of hammers for this old piano at this
> > point. It would be ok if the hammers are worn, need reshaping, have no or
> > broken shanks, etc, etc. The striking distance was nearly imposssible to
> > even guess, but I venture it was 2 3/8 ".
> >
> > Please feel fee to Email me personally at claudia_cimenti@mail.com if you
> > can think of something.
> >
> > Thank you very much!!
> > /Claudia
> >
> > PS: I hope that with this post I did not overstep the focus of this list.
> > If so, please accept my apologies. /C
> >

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