J. Delacour Piano

[John Delacour]

At 8:56 pm -0700 14/9/06, David Ilvedson wrote:

>Yes...I'd be interested in the the choice of Imadagawa...possibly a 
>hard hammer was needed to drive the board?

Let's spell their name and mine properly please!

Does the piano sound as if it has hard hammers?  Not to me it 
doesn't, nor to anyone who has played it.  I have used Imadegawa on 
more jobs than any other make.  There is a range of Imadegawa hammers 
and the two grand types I use are always very consistent in their 
hardness and very easy to tone down to the proper degree of hardness 
with the needle.  I have never had to send back or throw out a set of 
Imadegawa.  Neither have I ever seen the felt peel away from the 
moulding in humid conditions.  The same can't be said of a certain 
other famous make, though I trust by now they have improved.  I also 
never use dope.  If a hammer needs to be doped it needs to be thrown 
out.

JD