Schaff sells them in #s 4,5,and 6. David Love davidlovepianos at comcast.net www.davidlovepianos.com For deep toning the old-fashioned way is to use a single glover's needle in a broach-holder. These have a triangular section and can be twisted as you push them in. As you do this the fibres are forced apart. One method is to drive them down through the flank of the hammer parallel to the moulding. It all depends what part of the dynamic range you want to modify. Perhaps this would be the one, but without a full-size picture it's hard to say: <http://www.crazycrow.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=50 12-040-005> I forget where I last got mine. JD
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