a hammer question

[pianotune05]

Hi Richard,
I have the book, it's a pretty good book. I imagine that quite a few posts 
here would benefit from the book, but thanks for mentioning it for all of us 
to remember when posting.  It's much appreciated.
Marshall
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ric Brekne" <ricbrek@broadpark.no>
To: "pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:44 AM
Subject: a hammer question


> Marshall
>
> Might I suggest you buy Arthur Reblitz's book on piano tuning and repair. 
> Easily available on the net from several sources. I think you will find it 
> much more effective for this kind of thing then  email posts allow for.
>
> best of luck
> Richard Brekne
> ----------
>
> Hi everyone,
> I have a future customer who has a piano with a hammer, get this, that's
> split.  He has the other, top half.  Rather than order 88 hammers which
> I was told would have to be done because I cannot just order one, I was
> given another idea.  I was told that there is a sleeve that can be
> placed on the hammer shank that is still attached to the action and then
> the top half is inserted in.  Does anyone know if this is a hard
> procedure as I'm just getting into the repair side of piano tech?  Where
> can I buy such a sleeve?  Thanks again, and if this is one of those,
> obvious things as CY mentioned to me yesterday, I appologize.
> Marshall
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