Hello Patrick. Thanks for your insights. Glad to hear you had good experience with Desfougères. When was it that you had that set hammers refelted ? More than 5 years ago ? I was not as lucky as you are : I had two sets since refelted by Desfougères the son, which appeared to be half or less as good as the sets that Desfougères the father did when he was working. Also, I'm not sure at all that the moldings and hammer specs are original on the one I'm working on, so refelting is a bit risky : I strongly suspect the present hammers to be far too thick for the action desing. That is why I was searching for comments about the original specs. Now, possibly Desfougères the son could tell about those specs ? But for now, I'm contemplating new hammers made to measure by Renner or Abel. Best regards to your sunny country. Stéphane Collin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "PIANISSIMO PIANOFORTE S.L." <patrick at pianospianissimo.com> Anyway, what i find works best is sending them to get recovered with new felt, keeeping the old wood. There is a very very good place that specializes in that sort of job for old Pleyel's, in France. His name is Patrick Desfourgeres (not sure if i spelt it right). We sent him a set for a 1890 Pleyel last summer and he did a FANTASTIC job. I can get his phonenumber if you are interested. There is usually no underfelt, at least on the ones i've seen. Hope it helps. Regards, Patrick
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