Striking point

[Paul T Williams]

With the increased lanolin (meaning not washed out in the bleaching 
process) in the fibers, I find the tone to be more focused. They need very 
little work out of the box.  I've only tried them on a few Steinway grands 
so far, but would like to try them on a couple of Mason and Hamlins we 
have here at UNL that are in dire need of new hammers.  If you ever get a 
chance to take Wally's all day class on tone building and Abel hammers, 
make it a priority to do so. I like these hammers better than Renner 
blues.

Good luck with your project, but by the sound of it, you may be getting 
all you can get with what you have.

Paul





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I talking about them indeed! How much of a difference did you notice 
between regular hamers and the "natural felt" ?

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From: pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 07:41:42 -0500


Hi Alicia, 

The hammers I think you're talking about are from Wally Brooks.  They're 
Abel "Natural Felt" hammers and I really enjoy working with them. 

Paul 



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On the contraire, the tone from plucking is nice and rich. I've tried all 
sorts of hammers from grands uprights, etc but none that are to my 
likeing, I've managed to rake up some experience over  last 3 years or so, 
and never crossed a piano thats as weird as mine.

Speaking of hammers, I read in April addition of PTG journal about new 
type of hammers, that arent bleeched etc, anyone experienced them yet?

Alicia


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Subject: Re: Striking point
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 22:19:19 -0400
From: pnotnr at aol.com

A quick way to determine whether the tone problem is in the hammer or the 
string/bridge/soundboard would be to simply pluck the string.  If you get 
dull tone plucking the string, there probably won't be much you can to 
with the hammer.

Gordon Large, RPT
Maine


On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:24 PM, A E <eve_ane at hotmail.co.uk> wrote: 
William,

Upright piano, 43inches tall, made in Ukraine in early 90's, general 
condition of the piano is ok 


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