On Feb 20, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Delwin D Fandrich wrote: > And, after spending a week with Joe Bisceglie at the Steinway > factory back in the mid-1970s the impression I left with was that > they were now reluctantly adding chemical hardeners because of > changes in the hammer felt they were using at the time. My lasting > impression has been that this was a relatively recent—and not > altogether desirable—thing. And that is also what Franz Mohr has said. What the techs thought was that the hammers weren't as good as they used to be. (What _I_ think, as I have stated a few times, is that this is at least in part an artifact of the heavier hammer and the lower ratio). Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110220/d19f96b9/attachment-0001.htm>
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