Hi Bernhard. An interesting point that I see no one has really answered too. Cheers RicB Bernhard Stopper wrote: >Hammers parameters are not only stiffness/springieness. >A big influence on sound quality is the amount of the energy that is lost >due to the hammers inner friction of the fibers. A good felt quality has a >high ability of rebounding a big amount of the input energy. It seems logic >that this rebounding ability on a high quality hammer is reduced by >lacquering. On the other hand, it might be possible that on a hammer with a >bad felt quality with excessive inner friction may be stabilized to a better >level by lacquering. > >regards, > >Bernhard > > > > >
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