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<A title=Erwinspiano@AOL.COM
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> July 25, 2002 12:54 =
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Hammers with no =
inner
felt.</DIV>
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face="Times New Roman"
size=2 FAMILY="SERIF"><I>In a message dated 7/25/2002 10:44:39 AM =
Pacific
Daylight Time, <A
href="mailto:pianobuilders@olynet.com">pianobuilders@olynet.com</A>
writes:<BR><BR> </FONT><FONT =
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FAMILY="SERIF"></I> Del wrote</FONT><FONT lang=0 =
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TYPE="CITE">With modern hammer making techniques--very moist felt, =
lots of
steam and<BR>heat--cracking is less of a problem and thicker felt =
can more
easily be<BR>used. Considerable resilience is lost in the process =
but this
no longer<BR>seems to be a desirable characteristic for piano
hammers.<BR><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>Anyone<BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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FAMILY="SERIF"> &n=
bsp;
O.K. I'll bite Del. It's a mostly, largely undesireable =
charachteristic
and detrimental to the kind of piano tone I want to be able to =
develop. I'm
guessin you too. But hey were( I'm) in the minority. I =
won't go on
with more of the same opinion I've expressed
before.<BR>>>>>>Dale
Erwin>>></FONT></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I was being a bit sarcastic, Dale. Of course I =
want my
hammers to be resilient. And light enough so I don't need a bunch of =
extra
springs and a half-inch of key dip to get the bloody things up to hit =
the
strings without developing CTS. I've been saying for years that these =
rock-hard
atrocities we're so often getting these days are no longer piano hammers =
and
need to be put back in a box and returned to their makers. If they come =
already
attached to a piano...well, the box may need to be some larger but they =
should
still go back.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Del</FONT></DIV>
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