Pleyel 3 bis hammers specs

[David C. Stanwood]

Quentin writes:

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>I won't be able to give you the weighting of the hammer heads because Abel 
>sends them already glued and ready to mount.

Dear Quentin,

With a digital scale and a few jigs, it is very easy to measure hammer 
weight "on the shank" by tipping the hammer onto a digital scale with the 
flange resting on a roller bearing...  Subtracting an estimate of the 
shanks contribution (usually about 1.7g) will give you a good estimate of 
the actual hammer weights.  Drawings of the "Strike Weight" method as well 
as strike weight and hammer weight rating tables are freely available at:

http://www.stanwoodpiano.com/SW-HWstandards4.pdf

Hope this helps,

David Stanwood