Good day. I wanted to share a doubt with you regarding the intervention recently carried out on my piano in order to try to understand what the truth is before potentially acting in some concrete direction.
The hammer rail was replaced with an Abel one, but none of the installed hammers bear the typical mark of the German company: can this happen or is it a probable deception?
Same dilemma for the repetitions: does Renner put its mark on all its repetitions or are there exceptions?
It looks like oriental stuff, maybe Tokiwa. I'm not sure. Anyway, never throw away old pieces. I'd bet it was made!!! How is the piano going?
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pianoexpert wrote:
It looks like something oriental, perhaps Tokiwa. I'm not sure. Anyway, never throw away old pieces. I would bet anything that it was made!!! How is the piano going?
Many thanks, Mr. Maestro. I am sincerely in a difficult situation because whoever performed the replacement work should represent a figure of clear professionalism... however, the sound result is even worse compared to the original hammers which were compromised due to wear that was now too pronounced. We changed the hammer rail by requesting a new original Abel and paying for it. Similarly, purely for the purpose of an "upgrade", I had requested a complete set of Renner rests, also new. Now I was wondering if perhaps they were "warehouse leftovers" from Renner and therefore without a brand, or truly different objects from what was requested (and paid for).
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pianoexpert wrote:
It looks like oriental stuff, maybe Tokiwa. I'm not sure. Anyway, never throw away old pieces. I'd bet it was made!!! How is the piano going?
The hammers seem to be of good quality to me anyway. We need to see the weight and compression. We also need to see the shape. Everything must be almost identical to the originals. Are there any originals?
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pianoexpert wrote:
The hammers seem to be of good quality to me anyway. One needs to see the weight and compression. One also needs to see the shape. Everything must be almost identical to the originals. Are the originals available?
Thank you, Maestro. Look, the original hammers have just been re-installed by another technician (re-felted a few weeks ago by Abel, but then set aside for the pure desire to have a completely new and untouched hammer rail) and the piano has returned to its original sonic splendor: with the hammers in the photograph, it had become a 212 grand with the sound of an unharmonious upright...
There remain doubts nonetheless regarding the provenance of the new hammers... could they be (dishonest) re-felted ones? Is there a way to establish this unequivocally?
the important thing is that they are his and when they are reflected, Abel is very attentive to the reproduction of originals. The important thing is that they sound good and that's how it seems to me.
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pianoexpert wrote:
the important thing is that they are his and when they are reflected, Abel is very attentive to the reproduction of originals. The important thing is that they sound good and that's how it seems to me.
The original jacks were also restored (after appropriate modifications by the new technician) which had been replaced by the previous technician with a series not correctly chosen regarding the mechanics' geometries. In other words, we have a house full of piano components paid for very dearly, but which only served to make us spend more...
