<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>hammer juicing</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=us-ascii"> <STYLE type=text/css></STYLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2769" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV>Why didn't the voice teacher complain about the  'softness'?.<BR><SPAN class=353280402-25102005><FONT face=Arial = color=#0000ff size=2>[Leslie Bartlett] I don't think he noticed much. It was = much better than before, and he, 75 and suffering from Post Polio was = dealing with more serious problems than hammer voicing. I, at the time his = student was concentrating on singing........ </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Were they pre-filed before installation?<SPAN class=353280402-25102005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff = size=2>[Leslie Bartlett]  Not before installation, but I do believe after. </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Wally has literature for voicing the Abel hammers.  I have installed</DIV> <DIV>a few sets of Abel hammers which when needled as to = instructions</DIV> <DIV>the treble came to life, needing stiffener only in the top half octave.<BR><SPAN class=353280402-25102005><FONT face=Arial = color=#0000ff size=2>[Leslie Bartlett] Hmm the top is pretty bright- at least = plenty bright for me.  It's just slightly less than an octave which = just seems mushy.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=353280402-25102005><FONT face=Arial = color=#0000ff size=2>les</FONT> </SPAN></DIV><X-SIGSEP><PRE>-- </PRE></X-SIGSEP> <DIV><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>Jon Page</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>