----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: May 12, 2003 12:30 AM Subject: Re: Wurzen felt > > > > David has some information that goes exactly to this point dating back pretty > far. It seems to me that given the back and forth of the use of monster hammers > throughout the last hundred years also points in this direction. You find > quotes pointing in this direction quite a few places throughout history, tho I > have not made any particular effort to catalouge them. > The "monster hammers" of times past were monsters in physical size only. They were not monsters in terms of mass or density. The high-density and high-mass hammer is a much more recent phenomena brought on by the perceived needs of mass production. Del
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