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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So, like, those mean, green, Aeolian hammers on all
sorts of pianos of ill repute should be respected in some way?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hmmmmm. Don't think so.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Different color core felt doesn't mean doggie
doo.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=265220904-17032007>This afternoon,
after store hours, I asked a salesman at the store I work at one day a
week about the way he describes hammer construction and performance to his
customers. Basically he is telling customers that the colored section next to
the wood is a second layer that makes the hammer harder, (or whatever), and
that the multiple layered hammers perform better, last longer
and are subsequently more expensive and therefore only found on
pianos that cost a little more. Single layer hammers, (solid white), on
the other hand, are softer, don't perform as well and wear out
quicker.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=265220904-17032007>I shared with him
that I seem to remember "learning" somewhere that the colored section was,
functionally, simply that. A colored section. That the coloring of that
section was used to identify hammers made to certain specifications and/or for
certain buyers. Also, that hammers with that colored layer were only found
in pianos whose manufacturers went to the trouble to actually define
those characteristics to the hammer manufacturer. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=265220904-17032007>The fact that the
colored layer hammers are only found in the slightly more expensive better
made pianos is a given. As is the fact that the colored layer also
usually indicates a higher quality hammer. My conversation with this salesman
was not an argument. I was just curious and was hoping to learn something. But
at the end of our conversation we both had the same
questions:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=265220904-17032007>:
</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=265220904-17032007>Is that
colored section actually a second layer? (We could not tell by feeling
it.)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=265220904-17032007>: Is that colored
section, or second layer, actually functionally different than the rest of the
hammer? </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=265220904-17032007>: In other words,
does it actually do more than merely act as an identifier for the
characteristics of that hammer?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=265220904-17032007>The way he
describes hammers to the customer probably doesn't require change.
Simplifying things for the average customer is not necessarily a bad thing. We
just want to know for ourselves. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=265220904-17032007>-- Geoff
Sykes</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=265220904-17032007>-- Assoc. Los
Angeles</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>