Steinway stock bored hammer sets

[Horace Greeley]

Kent,

At 03:05 PM 3/26/2004, you wrote:
>The memory fails, and so do the search engines, so far. I seem to remember 
>reading that Steinway had lengthened the tails on its bored hammer sets. 
>Is this true? Has anyone actually seem a new set like this?

Yes, and Yes.  Also, note that they continue to bore very "large"...oceans 
of free play between shank and ID of bore in the hammer...presumably to be 
filled with the adhesive elixir of your choice.

Any reason why you would not prefer to bore your own?

Best.

Horace