Frank Good to hear,...now gaining the expertise on your own to operate and these presses and make consistent hammers is a tough trick since there are no living pressman in China. How are they doing it? Dale S. Erwin www.Erwinspiano.com Custom piano restoration Ronsen piano hammers-sales R & D and tech support Sitka soundboard panels 209-577-8397 209-985-0990 -----Original Message----- From: George F Emerson <pianoguru at cox.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Wed, Sep 29, 2010 5:59 am Subject: Re: [pianotech] Cold Pressed hammers was: Voicing the new Mason & Hamlins David Stanwood wrote: > I'm delighted to see the recent move away from so much hot pressing of > hammers. (although I haven't seen such a move in this respect on the part > of manufacturers yet..) Hailun is cold pressing hammers. About five years ago our European partners, Wendl & Lung, shipped several hammer presses, approaching 100 years old, to China. They sat in Customs for years, because the Chinese government would not allow the importation of "obsolete" technologies, over 40 years old. It took a while to convince them that the latest is not necessarily the greatest. Frank Emerson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100929/862c27f1/attachment-0001.htm>
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