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<font size=3>At 08:37 PM 9/18/02 -0500, you wrote:<br>
</font><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font face="arial" size=2>Hmmm.
Seems like you'd have to really know the hammers you were hanging--from
experience with the brand and "style." I was talked into (only
way I can say it) A. Isaac upright hammers for a Baldwin 6000. Those
suckers were so soft they sounded like marshmallows on sticks. So rather
than making pincushions out of them, I'd be more inclined to pour on the
lacquer before a put in another set of those. But, having only used them
once and having only installed new hammers 4 times, I wouldn't dare do
anything until I'd had them in the
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3>piano to evaluate. Am I
on-track here, or missing vital information?</font><br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>Alan
Barnard</font><font size=3></blockquote><br>
HI Alan,<br>
You are wise to test the hammers in the piano before you do any
voicing. <br>
A few brands of hammers, I know so well, I just needle them down to
save a lot of needling under the voicing block. Clamping them in
sections on the bench and rough needling them down is fast to get them in
the ball park. I have never had too soft Yamaha, Abel or Renner
hammers.<br>
Roger</font><br>
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