<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; cha= rset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f"> <DIV>Hello Sarah,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I was looking over your graph. This is strike weight, right? Not head w= eight? Even so, it looks like it might be unnecessarily porky for a Steinway= clone. What kind of hammers are they, and have the sides been tapered? Head= to tail, or just tails? Has any additional coving been done?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>As others have mentioned, doing your own tapering with a table saw jig = like the Spurlock goes a long way toward evening up (and reducing) weight. I= f they are 11 mm wide, they may not need to be, which you can check against = the string spacing. If they do need to be as wide as whatever they are, you = can just start the taper at that width. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>After tapering, I weigh each head before coving, and can make a 0.1 - 0= .2 gram evening-out adjustment in the weight by varying the cove, witho= ut having it show. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I think you are wise to put off final adjustments until you can put som= e hammers in the piano and see what kind of weight the action wants, as well= as what kind of sound you're getting.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Bob Davis</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>