(a first for me...) new hammers for 1927 s and s L

[Fenton Murray]

Hey Dave,
First, my qualifier, I have never used Steinway parts, but I'd be amazed if they arrived with proper bore distance and weight for your job at hand. 
You can do custom work, only way to go IMO, with out machining parts yourself. Ronson's has hammers that will work very well with your piano and he will custom bore and taper to your specs, you should be able to talk with Ray about weight as well. There are other suppliers out there as well that you can talk to on the phone to get hammers just the way you want them.
Fenton
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: AlliedPianoCraft 
  To: Pianotech List 
  Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 9:08 AM
  Subject: Re: (a first for me...) new hammers for 1927 s and s L


  Dave,

  Steinway and Ronsen hammers are very similar. Abel hammers are well made but very different in hardness and tone. If you're going for the original tone and color go with the Steinway or Ronsen. If you want a brighter tone and don't want to juice, go with the Abel naturals.

  Al Guecia




  From: piannaman at aol.com 
  Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 11:09 AM
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Subject: (a first for me...) new hammers for 1927 s and s L


  Liszters,

  I have a customer, who also happens to have a son who's a classmate of my son, who has an old L that's in pretty good shape, except the hammers are shot.  No room for shaping left on them.  But the strings are good, board is good, block is good . It's pretty solid all-round.  So after years of being pretty much strictly a home-service guy, I'm going to jump in and put a new set of hammers on this piano.  It will be the first complete set I've ever replaced.  

  I have had a few suggestions from folks on type of hammer, notably Steinway(sticking with the original, expensive) and Abel (more ready out-of-the-box, cheaper). I like the Ronsen VFGs that are on my Mason, too, but am not sure they'd match up well with the Steinway.   I was assuming that I'd go with Steinway, but I need to ask the customer if authentic Steinway parts are necessary.  Since I'm not tooled up to bore my own hammers, I'll probably get them pre-bored/pre-hung.  

  Any suggestions or input would be welcomed.   



  Dave Stahl, RPT
  Dave Stahl Piano Service
  dstahlpiano at sbcglobal.net
  dstahlpiano.net

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