---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi John You will find the address to both hammer makers in the back of the cu= rrent journals. personally find the tone of the Japanese hammers to be f= airly one dimensional focusing on the brighter spectrums and not taking a= dvantage of the fundamental frequency's as readily. As for juice some of= the best sounding pianos you've ever heard have varying amounts of solut= ion in the hammers. Your reticence will diminish with experience. Please = let me know if I may be of assistance. Dale Erwin -209-577-8397 =20 ----- Original Message ----- From: John Delacour Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 4:41 PM To: pianotech@ptg.org; pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Re: 1 string, 2 strings, 3 strings or more =20 At 23:54 21/09/01 -0500, Ron Nossaman wrote: >>We have found that when the scale and the soundboard are working togeth= er we >>are able to use quite soft hammers--such as those made by Steinway, Ron= sen >>and Isaacs--with excellent results and with virtually no lacquer in the >>treble. Even these will generally require some needling through the ten= or >>and (sometimes) the bass and upper tenor. We couldn't possibly use Japa= nese >>or German hammers. At least not as they are sold in the U.S. > >Likewise, on all counts. Rather dramatically too, I might add. This is a >tough sell for most of the rebuilders out here (as it was for me before = I >assimilated a few more basic soundboard design truths than I had >accumulated at that point), but it's dead on in practice. Interesting. So Steinway make their own hammers in the US. I was not aw= are of that. In Hamburg they use Abel's hammers (now covered with Laoure= ux felt, I have just learned from Laoureux). Before that they used Renne= r hammers, which were made by Helmut Abel, then working for Renner. The hammer I have had the most consistent and pleasing results with is th= e Imategawa with the unshaped walnut moulding. These I obtain without im= pregnation 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 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/84/fb/da/52/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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