1 string, 2 strings, 3 strings or more

[Ron Nossaman]

>The hammer I have had the most consistent and pleasing results with is the 
>Imategawa with the unshaped walnut moulding.  These I obtain without 
>impregnation and do all the boring and shaping myself.  Very little toning 
>is required and what is needed is easy -- and more important I have never 
>had a soft set.  I detest any use of dope.
>
>I'd like to try the Ronsen or Isaacs hammers.  Have you got addresses for
them?
>
>JD

A word of caution. If you're happy with Imategawa, these will be
considerably softer. I put a set of Abels on one of my pianos, and spent a
day trying to voice them down enough to make them tolerable. On the
original soundboard and scale, they would have probably been fine.
 

Ron N