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Hello everyone.
I need to build a piano hammer rail with only 6 strings
Its function is similar to the one shown in the photo below:
Does anyone have an idea where I can find the components to assemble?
If they cannot be found commercially, can I build them somehow?
Everything must be robust and very lightweight.
Thanks to whoever answers me.
Federico Berti.
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perhaps it would be worth taking a mechanical section from a piano being demolished.
Member
Interesting idea, but where can I find a piano slated for demolition?
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Someone who doesn't know what to do with it, perhaps a straight-strung piano or one that is not worth undertaking a restoration!!!!! Institutes, very elderly people, forgotten family pianos, heavily damaged pianos (cracked frame, flooded, etc...)
Happy hunting
Member
thank you very much, but I was hoping for something else: I would like to find a retail outlet that allows me to purchase spare parts directly; restorers must have to obtain them somehow...
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Yes, but assembling is difficult and the keys are made entirely for the whole keyboard. There are no spare parts for 6 keys and six hammers. Therefore, it is better to look in scrap.
Member
Ah, thank you. Seeing the video you put on the website about grand piano mechanics, I thought that hammers and mechanisms were also sold separately. For goodness' sake, I can even build them myself, but it would have been interesting to be able to buy them already made... Too bad, I really don't know where to find pianos for scrap, it's easier to build them myself... thanks for the advice!
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I hammers and rests I can procure for you... but making the keys is difficult and it is difficult to build such a model of at least six keys. You can check out the Renner house, but I believe it is very expensive. Keep in mind that the model used for the courses costs quite a bit, even if the individual parts do not cost much. I cannot open the photo. Send me another one.
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If you can't open the photo, look up Jesse Fuller on Google Images, you'll find something. Thanks for the information, now I'm thinking about how to resolve this: as soon as I have news I'll let you know, okay? Thanks in the meantime.
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federicoberti wrote:
If you can't open the photo, look up jesse fuller on google images, you'll find something. Thanks for the information, now I'm thinking about how to resolve this: as soon as I have news I'll let you know, ok? Thanks in the meantime.
try checking here
https://www.pianoparts.com/ipscat.pdf
from this site you can also purchase individual parts (stands, nuts etc.)....but the price is high.
Member
Great, exactly the site I was looking for, thanks!
