Daniel Farah
SPÉCIALISTE EN RESTAURATION DE PIANO
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Steinway « O » New York 1910
Vintage Pianos
Steinway 9′ 1931 (Lindsay)
Steinway « K » Vertegrand
Hamburg ‘A’ 1916
Bluthner 9′ 1935 concert
Steinway: Family problem child
Gaveau 1923 6′ 8″ Paris
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Keyboard and action
Homemade jig to clamp in the new backstop leather.
Filing the hammers with sandpaper to rub away the imprints of the strings aiming at the original shape.
How to save the original knuckle while stuffing it to it's original shape.
This home made vise rotating in two axes will reproduce any angle in relation with hammers.
Boring the new hammers.
Getting the right angle.
Finding the middle of the hammers, old and new, is time consuming but is worth the effort since it will match the blue print.
Correcting the deviations in the old hammers will save efforts and time when gluing new hammers.
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