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You can check out ’ build video after the break along with a little (we think) after the break. With new felt, new hammers, and light weight shanks on every key, has a remarkable piano that is most likely better than new. The Steinway hammers were removed from their shanks, carbon fiber shanks glued into place, and the entire assembly put back into the piano. After cleaning up the wood and replacing some felt the piano looked much better, but wanted to make it play better.Īfter picking up a set of hammers from a 1909 Steinway, tore apart the action on his Kimball.

The 1941 Kimball baby grand piano picked up for $350 was a complete mess when it arrived in his house. He’s doing his best to refurbish this $350 piano and turn it into something that plays and sounds like a $200,000 concert grand Of course for a complex mechanical device made out of wood, it wasn’t in the best shape.
