<html> At 10:15 PM 7/1/2002 -0400, you wrote:<br> <blockquote type=cite cite><font size=2>I too have found the Abels way too hard.  I had a set on a 6' grand in my studio, 10 steamings later they still hurt your ears.  Put a set of Isaac's on, a light acetone/keytop in the top three octaves and what a sound!  I just went to visit this piano at the teacher's studio who bought it from me and everything is still fine.  My first set also went on a teacher's piano, she has 70 students and after a year they still looked and sounded like new.  The sets I have used weigh off around the break between middle and high SW in Stanwood's chart.<br> I have a couple sets of Abel hammers I think I would like to sell.<br> Andrew Remillard<br> ANRPiano.com</font><font face="arial"> </blockquote><br> The last set of Abel Light's I installed were a little on the bright side but with proper voicing technique they turned around quickly.<br> Wally has a handout for how to voice these hammers efficiently.  I prefer to needle down than to juice up the hammers.<br> <br> </font><br> <div>Regards,</div> <br> <div>Jon Page,   piano technician</div> <div>Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.</div> <div><a href="mailto:jonpage@attbi.com" EUDORA=AUTOURL>mailto:jonpage@attbi.com</a></div> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ </html>