rmartin21@juno.com wrote: > Gene > > There was too much text in the meassages to enclose here, but just > wanted > to mention the fact that I do an awful lot of vintage pianos and > have had > great success with Ronsen hammers. > > You probably know all this anyway...but thought I'd mention it > anyway. I > measure the weight of the #1 hammer on a gram scale then , since I > do > all my own drilling and tapering and shaping anyway, shape until I > have > equal weight with the sample. Then, with Ronsen which is a cold > pressed > hammer, I start building up the hammer for intonation. Works very > well...especially for vintage pianos and emulating their original > sound > which a lot of customers seem to very impressed with. > > regards > > Ralph Martin MPT FL Ralph, Ronsen Hammers are what I used. The high trebles have thick felt and should be filed to a reasonable size before boring though. Gene Roe RPT
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