Renner 'Blues'

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D.L.
 I'm glad your having success
   Frankly My experience is just the opposite. Very  difficult to get the 
sound I wanted especially the twenties sound in the top 3  octaves. I dunno maybe 
I was just unlucky enough to get several bum sets over  the years when I've 
tried them,  But whenever I feel the kind of  resistance of sticking one needle 
into the hammer felt of any brand hammer  in octave 5-6-7 I know its' going 
to be a long day & probably won't get the  sweet sound I'm after.
    Perhaps something's different now but I've  only heard 1 set of Renners 
voiced to my liking & it was on one of Dave  Andersens stwy piano restorations. 
Admittedly It was a beautiful sound that  didn't grate my ears as they 
usually have done but then Daves a very  skilled voicer. 
  It's probably just me & my  preference for a different kind of sound & 
Ronsen hammers usually do that  with out all the acupuncture or heavy solutions. 
IMHO this hammer is as close to  the twenties Stwy & other type hammers as I've 
experienced.
  Too each there own & viva la  difference
   Dale

Where did anyone get the idea that "Most Americans do not like  these  
(Renner) hammers"?  I think the only thing anyone does  not like about Renners is 
their cost.  Every one of the finest  technicians I have known used Renners.  I 
have used them for over ten  years.  I do not find them to be too hard.  If 
one piano sounds too  loud they may easily be voiced down.  I prefer the old 
style sound from  pianos I restore from the teens and twenties. 
 
The  new Yamaha or even new Steinway sound sets my teeth on edge like 
fingernails  on the blackboard.  Renners are exactly what I am looking for.   I have 
only had one or two in those years of Renner hammers that were in need  of 
voicing down.  What I like about them is I don't have to voice them  up, but only 
need to even them out.  I have many happy customers who  agree with me and 
they are some of the finest musicians  anywhere.
 
If  you want stone hard hammers, check out imadegawa or other cheaper Asian  
hammers.  I had one customer who called me up a month after getting his  piano 
back from my competition.  He was literally in tears.  The  piano had no 
character in its tone and was excruciatingly LOUD.  It could  not even play soft 
if you tried.  He had asked for Renner and was told "  You will love it when I 
get done"  I replaced those brand new rock  hammers with Renners and he then 
loved it.
 
Another customer spent $17,000. for a restoration of  his Mason Hamlin and 
when he requested Renner hammers was charged an extra  $2,500.00 for them.  When 
he got the piano back it had cheap Asian  hammers on it that were like Rocks. 
 The lawsuit he won but I doubt he will get anything  from the so-called 
piano technician in Broken Arrow OK since the guy declared  bankruptcy.  He is 
still doing university piano sales,  however.
 
I am VERY pleased with Renner hammers.  I would  only change if I could find 
the hammer exactly like they make but for  substantially less money. (Like 
that will  happen.)
 
D.L.  Bullock
_www.thepianoworld.com_ (http://www.thepianoworld.com/) 



 

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