You mention that the piano - the Baldwin Hamilton? - is shot. Is the piano worth a new set of hammers? I've super-glued quite a few sets of hammers on these older/lesser/more-worn pianos with very good success. Not by any means the route I would recommend for a performance piano, but one that is limping along and is not really worth dumping money in, IMHO, like will sound just as good (or ho-hum) with repaired hammers as new hammers - and for a whole lot less $$. Other than that, it sounds like you have it covered. DC units and lower the humidity in the rooms as much as is possible and you've done about all you can. Terry Farrell On Aug 10, 2010, at 10:56 PM, Leslie Bartlett wrote: > I have a church client with a Baldwin Hamilton needing new hammers > (which have been ordered) because the felts are coming unglued. > They also have some mold on the inside of the piano. It’s not a > great amount, but I haven’t a clue as to how to deal with the > problem. They have problems with 3-4 other pianos as well. Newly > installed dampp chasers should stop it, and changes to their AC > should lower humidity to well within tolerable limits (56% today, as > opposed to 75% a few weeks ago). How do I deal with this problem, > other than tell them the piano is shot, or make sure the outside is > spotless? > Thanks > Les bartlett -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100811/4072952f/attachment.htm>
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