light hammers for vintage pianos

[Eugene I. Roe RPT]

rmartin21@juno.com wrote:

> Gene
>
> There was too much text in the meassages to enclose here, but just
> wanted
> to mention the fact that I do an awful lot of vintage pianos and
> have had
> great success with Ronsen hammers.
>
> You probably know all this anyway...but thought I'd mention it
> anyway. I
> measure the weight of the #1 hammer on a gram scale  then , since I
> do
> all my own drilling and tapering and shaping anyway, shape until I
> have
> equal weight with the sample. Then, with Ronsen which is a cold
> pressed
> hammer, I start building up the hammer for intonation. Works very
> well...especially for vintage pianos and emulating their original
> sound
> which a lot of customers seem to very impressed with.
>
> regards
>
> Ralph Martin MPT  FL

 Ralph, Ronsen Hammers are what I used. The high trebles have thick felt
and should be filed to a reasonable size before boring though.
Gene Roe RPT