Les, Jim, et al, After messing around with glover's needles, and whatever else was popular at the time, I was introduced to the needles sold through Yamaha. They were so superior to anything else (with the exception of extremely hard to find needles from England or Germany), that I bought a large quantity (about 4 dozen packs) of the longer ones sold. The difference seems to have been not only the quality of the metal itself, but the needles from Yamaha were also hardened... quite useful when dealing with some of the plastic mallets which pass for piano hammers these days... No, I don't know if they still stock these or not. Also, they were not cheap. However, they have outlasted anything else by so long that I don't care. Bye the way, Needles is actually a small town in the middle of nowhere on the California/Arizona border - possibly the differing grades of needles available from Schaff/WalMart/etc, are made possible by the harvesting of same from varying kinds of local cactus... (sorry) Best. Horace At 09:37 PM 11/1/97 -0600, you wrote: >Hi, Jim. > >Well, I ordered some needles from Schaff, and they looked strangely like >the needles one would buy at WalMart or a cloth store, with eyes for >thread and everything. Needles-to-say, they're cheaper at WalMart, and >that's where I'll buy them in the future. > >leslie > > > Horace Greeley Systems Analyst/Engineer Controller's Office Stanford University email: hgreeley@leland.stanford.edu voice mail: 650.725.9062 fax: 650.725.8014
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