<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: = 10pt"> <DIV><SPAN class=860504602-07112003>Everyone is talking about how hard = Yamaha hammers are, yet I worked on a C7 where they were too soft. Any advice = on how to bring up the brilliance once it's too low?</SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=860504602-07112003>Richard</SPAN></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV align=left class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]<B>On = Behalf Of </B>Erwinspiano@aol.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, November 06, 2003 = 9:14 PM<BR><B>To:</B> pianotech@ptg.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Yamaha hammers<BR><BR></DIV></FONT> <DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial> So we consider thousand jab needling to = be <BR>a voicing technique that is reserved for that special category of = hammers <BR>that have apparently been quarried rather than manufactured, and = yet must <BR>be brought somewhere near the edge of usability by whatever means = we have <BR>available to us.  As far as I'm concerned, if the = manufacturer didn't want <BR>the piano to sound like a Xylophone on steroids, = they would have put on a <BR>decent hammer in the first place.<BR></FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000040 face="Times New Roman" = size=3><STRONG>  Ron N</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000040 face="Times New Roman" size=3><STRONG></STRONG></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000040 face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><STRONG>   Well said Ron. I personally think if we = all boycotted voicing this type of hammer under the umbrella of technician = abuse we could probably get on the 6 ocklock news complaing of tennis elbow tnedonitis & hearing loss. Jump in osha!! Yes we could = all carry placards & we could force the big Piano factories to Use more = user /body freindly hammmers. Petrified felt would become extinct overnight...like the dinosaurs.hhmmmm right. I'm holding my breath = some more. Bye</STRONG></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#000040 face="Times New Roman" = size=3>   Dale</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#000040 face="Times New Roman" = size=3>   </FONT></STRONG></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>