At 07:22 PM 7/23/01 -0700, David Love wrote:
>Does anyone know when Steinway started hardening hammers with
>chemicals? Many of the old sets from the 20's do not seem to contain
>hardeners.
In the 20s they were using shellac as a hardener, if I recall what Fred
Drasche said many years ago. To my knowledge they've *always* used a
hardener of some kind.
John
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