At 20:58 +0200 13/6/08, Stphane Collin wrote: >Old hammers were lighter than the new ones, but new ones (Renner Wurzen AA) What thickness of felt have you between the strike point and the moulding wood? Quite often Abel gives you too much, which means you get far too long a contact with the string. You can either inject a hard-setting dope at the point of the moulding or reshape the top of the hammer. Applying dope from the top downwards will not achieve the effect you want. Let the old hammer and the new bounce on a hard heavy surface and see how differently they behave. JD
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