[CAUT] Ronsen-Wurzen hammers

[Ron Nossaman]

> No question about it!  Which is why hammer manufacturers would do well to
> offer their hammers in three different pressings: soft, medium and hard to
> accommodate different soundboard responses and different accompanying
> scales.  Weight variances are also important but at least one can manipulate
> that on one's own.  Why this is so difficult, maybe someone can explain.  
> 
> David Love

It's so difficult because 99%+ of hammers installed are hung 
with the soundboard and scale being considered a more or less 
standard and interchangeable given. Our worlds are defined by 
what we deal with. Designing and building belly systems that 
are different from those everyone else deals with daily is an 
enlightening experience. Greater efficiency is quite possible, 
and changes the hammer hardness requirements result. Somewhere 
on the far side of the complexity of getting there, it becomes 
simple again.

Ron N