It's funny. Before I came into check email, I was hanging sample genuine Steinway hammers on a D I have in the shop, and was very happy with the sound of those samples. In the last few years, you know, there has been a transition in the Steinway factory to the current pre-lacquered hammers, and that transition may account for some of the variation we have seen, as they have adjusted things to suit their needs. The last 2 sets seem to have been both similar to each other and pleasing to me. If they are gonna be like the last 2 sets for a while, then I'll be happy with Steinway hammers. BTW, the last two or three sets of Steinway shanks & flanges I have gotten have been the best I've ever seen, from _any_ manufacturer. Ask again in a few months. Kent On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Paul T Williams < pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu> wrote: > Hi Kent and all, > > I quite discouraged with the set of factory hammers for one of our D's we > discussed a couple months ago. I've had to juice them several times all > over. I still don't like the tenor and killer octaves all the way up to > C-7. They're hung nice and straight, but for fun, I moved the action in and > out a small amount (like2-4mm) to see if the killer area was going to need > altering in the strike point. Not much happened, so they stay where they > are. > > Of course, they haven't had a lot of playing in yet. I get so-so fff and > the ppp is pretty good. I don't like much of anything inbetween except the > middle 2 octaves and bass. It's just weak sounding. String mating is good > and regulation is great, so it's either that these aren't a great set of > hammers, or the soundboard has some issues (this piano is from the 80's or > early 90's) It was a C&A piano, so it's got a different serial number, but > that's what Richard West says, and since he was here, that's what it is... > > I might consider trying some Hamburg hammers sometime, but I'll really have > to think long and hard about getting another NY set. > > What about y'all? > > Paul > > > > From: Kent Swafford <kswafford at gmail.com> To: caut at ptg.org Date: 10/13/2010 > 05:27 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] How much voicing on new NY hammers > ------------------------------ > > > > I have found no consistent answer to your question. The last set of D > hammers I put on needed to be juiced up a bit in the top two sections and > was then ready to go; the set before that has been juiced twice throughout > and is not yet bright enough; the one before that was OK in the tenor but > needed to be juiced everywhere else. > > Hanging these is like spinning the wheel of fortune. I'd be interested in > knowing where yours land. > > Kent > > > On Oct 13, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Paul T Williams wrote: > > Hi all > > Quick question; how much voicing is typically needed on the new NY hammers > for our D? I have a very small window to put a set on our D in the main > hall. They're pre-hung and I have them here in the shop. The project > starts tomorrow. > > Thanks > Paul > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110114/1370a79e/attachment.htm>
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