The Piano Workshop

Mouse house or piano?

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This little upright piano had a mouse take up residence, and it decided to remove most of the tapes from the action to use as bedding for its nest.

Upright piano action dissassembled — First job is to remove the hammers from the action rail

Remains of original tape need to be cut from the hammer butt

New set of tapes

New tapes need to be cut to length

Multiple tapes can be cut in one pass

Hammer butt with new tape glued in place — The new tape can then be glued to the back of the counter-check

Whilst the hammers are off, we may as well clean them up

Emery cloth can be pulled over the clamped hammers

Much nicer clean surfaced hammers

Some hammer flanges have broken string, so they will be replaced