Evidence of overlacquered hammers

David Love davidlovepianos@comcast.net
Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:23:30 -0700


That's fine, but a Yamaha requires a fairly dense hammer because of the
way the soundboard is designed.  There are many pianos that have quite a
different set up and whose hammer needs will be different.  

David Love
davidlovepianos@comcast.net 

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From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On
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Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 11:13 AM
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Subject: Re: Evidence of overlacquered hammers


On 30-sep-04, at 19:53, David Love wrote:

> I think you misunderstand me.  Of course you can ruin the tone by a 
> poor
> quality of poorly voiced hammer.  In your case, clearly the tone was
> there waiting to come out with a decent hammer.  That is not always
the
> case.
>
> I think we are spinning our wheels here.
>
> David Love
> davidlovepianos@comcast.net

No David, I clearly understood you.
The instrument I mentioned was a low life 'older Yamaha' G3.
The AA Wurzen hammers (made by Renner) gave it a completely new 
dimension.
I had exactly the very same experience with a younger C3 about 10 years 
old. Not a very bad one, not a very good one.
I installed our AA Wurzen covered hammers and they altered the 
instrument. It almost sounded German. hah!

André Oorebeek

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