[CAUT] Weikert felt; was 80 year old S&S hammers

[Jim Busby]

Thanks Ed.

JB

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Subject: Re: [CAUT] Weikert felt; was 80 year old S&S hammers

Jim asks: 
<< So, is this just another hammer option, or is this a "home run! You 
gotta try these!"? What would you put them on? Concert instruments, everything? 
>>

       I don't know what different venues would like,  I know that these 
hammers will never satisfy the record producers in Nashville, who like a 
crashy, bright sound.  I have them on a 1927 M and it has that full, round sound 
that I have heard before from original Mason & Hamlins.  The malleability of 
the tone is what is attractive to me; the pianissimo is big and round, and 
with increasing force, the brilliance begins to appear.  New, the hammers 
are too soft for full range, but I suspect that with play, they will have the 
magic combination.  I am not scared to harden them if needed, but I really 
want to put a few sets in the school's heavy use rooms and see if they don't 
wake up all by themselves. 
Regards, 



Ed Foote RPT 
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