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<br><div><div>On Oct 14, 2008, at 4:41 PM, David Love wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18px; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial" style="font-size: 15px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">I would still like to see this hammer hardened starting gradually from about F#5 to the top either in the press or by some pretreatment. I would prefer that sets at this level not require any hardening except perhaps at the extremes. Even with that, at least with the one set I installed, it performs very well.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18px; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial" style="font-size: 15px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: navy; "> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18px; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial" style="font-size: 15px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">One other thing, I would like to see yet another iteration with an even firmer pressing overall for use on big performance pianos or pianos that simply require a firmer hammer. That would give what I have been looking from a hammer manufacturer for a long time which is a hammer that can be ordered with three different pressings (soft, medium, firm) creating a starting point that one could choose depending on the requirements of the piano and/or customer. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font></p></span></blockquote><br></div><div>Spot-on. I'd like the option of a slightly harder hammer also. I guess that's the beauty of dealing with a custom artisan like Ray Negron at Ronsen---he can do it for us.</div><div><br></div><div>DA</div><br></body></html>