<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>  Hi Don</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>  What part of the scale were your samples placed i= n & how many sticks on average was achieving the desired effect?.</FONT></= DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>  This sounds like the description of battery voici= ng Andre had outlined.. I'll try this.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>    Thanks</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>     Dale</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><= FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size= =2>I put some samples of the Ronsen hammers with Wurzen felt on a Kawai piano <BR>f= or use in a voicing seminar in North Carolina a couple of weeks back.  I= <BR>think those who heard them in the class would agree that they sounded = very <BR>nice.<BR><BR>The initial tone was a little too soft, so I first shaped= them a little to <BR>get a more uniform shape (they were a little lopsided= ) and fit the strike <BR>point to the strings.  They still needed a lit= tle more, so I filed them <BR>with 1,000 grit sandpaper a little up and over t= he strike point.  This <BR>helped a little more.  Finally I deep needled them at the widest point - 9 <BR>and 3 O'clock, with the needles pointing up towards the tip of the molding, <BR>but not passing over the molding.  This increased the power quite a bit, <BR>and the class agr= eed that they didn't need any more.<BR><BR>Don Mannino RPT<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>