At 07:46 AM 3/5/97 +0000, Andr=E9 wrote: >I now understand, that the hammers you get from Steinway NY are too soft. No, they aren't "too soft", they are NY Steinway hammers. B-}) These hammers are traditionally soft, and are traditionally hardened in order to give the traditional NY Steinway sound. There's a difference. >Well, here is just what I mean! if you don't like them, why could you not talk about it and have them make different ones? Because if they did, they wouldn't sound like NY Steinway hammers. >Maybe some of you should shop around a little more. It is here! I've put other hammers on NY Steinways by request, but as a general rule here if it's a NY piano it gets NY replacement parts. This is not out of any sense of superiority of their parts, but for the same reason that parts that go into my Volvo come out of a Volvo box. Other hammers can sound very nice on a NY, but I always get the feeling that something is missing. That "something" is lacquer, IMO. John Musselwhite, RPT =20 Calgary, Alberta Canada =20 musselj@cadvision.com
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