>The hammer I have had the most consistent and pleasing results with is the >Imategawa with the unshaped walnut moulding. These I obtain without >impregnation and do all the boring and shaping myself. Very little toning >is required and what is needed is easy -- and more important I have never >had a soft set. I detest any use of dope. > >I'd like to try the Ronsen or Isaacs hammers. Have you got addresses for them? > >JD A word of caution. If you're happy with Imategawa, these will be considerably softer. I put a set of Abels on one of my pianos, and spent a day trying to voice them down enough to make them tolerable. On the original soundboard and scale, they would have probably been fine. Ron N
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