Paul, No. I know that NY S&S has had Hamburg Hammers in their catalog and has for years. So I don't know what the problem is getting them from NY unless they run out. However, as I said, I think I did see them in the Pacific catalog. Maybe they buy them directly from Renner. When APSCO sold them, they cost less than getting them from S&S NY. Quite a bit less!!! I do not know what the prices from Pacific or Lloyd etc are these days to compare. One can order Hamburg Hammers already mounted on shanks and flanges from NYC too, if you are in a hurry to swap out a set of hammers, or something. The set I bought from APSCO were wider and a bit heavier. I believe the concert grand hammers were advertised as being "24 lb" hammers.... HA.... whatever that was supposed to mean. This was years ago, so things probably have changed. I remember the treble was quite bright and the bass needed some help. YMMV Richard -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110211/f5074924/attachment.htm>
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