This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Erwinspiano@AOL.COM=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: July 25, 2002 12:54 PM Subject: Re: Hammers with no inner felt. In a message dated 7/25/2002 10:44:39 AM Pacific Daylight Time, = pianobuilders@olynet.com writes: Del wrote With modern hammer making techniques--very moist felt, lots of steam = and heat--cracking is less of a problem and thicker felt can more easily = be used. Considerable resilience is lost in the process but this no = longer seems to be a desirable characteristic for piano hammers. Regards, Anyone O.K. I'll bite Del. It's a mostly, largely undesireable = charachteristic and detrimental to the kind of piano tone I want to be = able to develop. I'm guessin you too. But hey were( I'm) in the = minority. I won't go on with more of the same opinion I've expressed = before. >>>>>Dale Erwin>>> I was being a bit sarcastic, Dale. Of course I want my hammers to be = resilient. And light enough so I don't need a bunch of extra springs and = a half-inch of key dip to get the bloody things up to hit the strings = without developing CTS. I've been saying for years that these rock-hard = atrocities we're so often getting these days are no longer piano hammers = and need to be put back in a box and returned to their makers. If they = come already attached to a piano...well, the box may need to be some = larger but they should still go back. Del ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/3b/32/b0/32/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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