Ronsen hammers with Bacon felt! Talk with Ray at Ronsen and he will advise you on the best match, and will probably recommend Bacon. More expensive hammers are the Wurzen felt and are not that much more. Maybe try one set of each and then decide on the others. You may like the Wurzen better. Henry Nicolaides Piano Technician Southern Illinois University > From: draine at me.com > Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 13:38:42 -0400 > To: caut at ptg.org > Subject: Re: [CAUT] Hamilton hammers > > Go Ronsen! > Patrick Draine > > On Apr 9, 2010, at 1:04 PM, Dempsey Jr., Paul E wrote: > > > All, > > > > WE have a number of Baldwin Hamilton's c.1968 that live in very small, very loud practice rooms. > > > > A small $$ windfall is going to allow me to re-hammer some of these. When new, the hammers were rock hard and defied even the most heroic voicing attempts, so I want to make sure that I install something moderately soft to start with this time. > > > > Again, the rooms are small, with block wall construction, tile floors, etc. > > > > Suggestions welcome. > > > > > > Paul E. Dempsey, RPT > > Piano Technician Sr. > > Marshall University > > Huntington, WV > > 304-696-5418 > > 304-617-1149 > > > _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100409/41ce5643/attachment.htm>
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