Fw: Upright Hammer Weight

[Farrell]

I, for one, should think that it would be similar to the grand. I did the
Stanwood Strike Weight measurement of a few new hammers (untapered, etc.)
that I am installing in an upright and found them to lie in the medium SW
range on Stanwood's charts. I tried lighter hammers in those locations
(placing a #60 hammer in the #50 position, etc.) and found tone to be thin
but loud. I tried adding weights to hammers and found distortion occured
pretty quickly. It seems that in my case, the untrimmed hammers are in a
good SW range. It made me more comfortable seeing them in the middle of
Stanwood's charts because the originals were way, way, lighter.

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message -----
From: <BobDavis88@AOL.COM>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Upright Hammer Weight


> In a message dated 11/16/2001 4:18:36 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> nhunt@optonline.net writes:
>
> > I think strike weight will have a far lower effect on touch and tone
> >  than on a grand.
>
> Touch, yes, but why would strike weight not have the same effect on tone
as
> in a grand?
> Bob Davis
>