New Steinway hammers... was Collodium etc

[Delwin D Fandrich]

----- Original Message -----
From: Ron Nossaman <nossaman@southwind.net>
To: <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 11:08 PM
Subject: Re: New Steinway hammers... was Collodium etc


> I rebuilt a Mason & Hamlin "A" earlier this year, with my own soundboard
> and rib scale design, that went back to a church in a town about 40 miles
> south of where I live. I used Ari Isaac's hammers, which are as soft as
any
> I've seen, and even did some needling, as was necessary, to smooth out the
> voicing. I didn't add any hardeners whatsoever, anywhere in the scale.
> Another tech stopped in to visit the piano when she was in that town
> recently, and her comment was "What tone!". It's my conclusion, arrived at
> by sweat and blood, that voicing is an after-the-fact attempt to bring the
> reality of what the soundboard is capable of producing, into the realm of
> acceptability. If the soundboard works, you really don't need hard
hammers.
> Voicing, in fact, becomes mostly unnecessary. Perhaps "culture" does too.
8^)
>
> Ron N

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