J. Delacour Piano

[David Ilvedson]

Sorry about the spellings...

To me, the hammers did sound hard, but as you mentioned it was a compressed MP3 format...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044


----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "John Delacour" <JD at Pianomaker.co.uk>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Received: 9/15/2006 1:54:05 AM
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