What's the soundboard made out of? I haven't read it yet, or I missed it. Joy! Elwood Rev. Elwood Doss, Jr., M.M.E., RPT Piano Technician/Technical Director Department of Music 145 Fine Arts Building University of Tennessee at Martin Martin, TN 38238 Office: 731/8811852 Fax: 731/881-7415 -----Original Message----- From: John Delacour [mailto:JD at Pianomaker.co.uk] Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 3:54 AM To: Pianotech List Subject: RE: J. Delacour Piano 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
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