Yamaha gold?

[David Love]

Why not put a Renner hammer on?  You will have no trouble getting
brilliance but you will have an easier time manipulating the sound than you
will with the quarried hammer you mention.  

David Love
davidlovepianos@earthlink.net


> [Original Message]
> From: <A440A@aol.com>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Date: 8/29/2003 9:55:45 AM
> Subject: Yamaha gold?
>
> Greetings, 
>    Hmm,  just got a quote from Yamaha that a older (D series) C3 needing
new 
> hammers will have to be given a new set of hammers, glued to the shanks,
for 
> $1,100, plus shipping.  This is not going to happen, since the shanks and 
> knuckles are still perfectly serviceable, and the last set of these
things I 
> ordered for a CF didn't fit and I had to undo everything and shorten the
shanks. 
>    The customer is a professional and records this particular piano for
movie 
> scores and stuff.  He likes the brilliant sound and specifically said
that he 
> didn't want "mellow" on his piano. So,  who has used what in cases like
this? 
>   I would naturally lean toward the Imadegawa hammers,since I remember
them 
> as being about the same hardness as the Yamaha stock items.  
> Thoughts?
> Thanks, 
>
> Ed Foote RPT 
> www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/
> www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
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