hammer changing

[Roger Jolly]

Greetings Jose,
                 The Encore performance hammers work very well on the CF's
and will need less voicing.  That may, or may not be desireable.  The tone
will not be typical Yamaha, but much warmer.  Some recording studios like
the clearer, and more in your face tone quality, so be careful with the
client, before recommending a different type hammer.
Try and get some sample hammers to try, may be a good idea.  That way you
will get a good idea of where you are going tonally.
Ordering the prehung hammer sets is a safe way to go.  I'm not sure if
prehung hammers are availiable for the CF???????   I have a preference to
hang my own hammers on this quality of piano.
Just some random thought's.
Roger 


At 07:53 PM 3/30/02 +0000, you wrote:
>Hello Marcel
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>This CF piano has been in France first and, after a while, they brought it
to Portugal and now it is in a record studio! There are many pianists who
made their recordings in those piano and the regulation and voicing is
always beeing changed... When we found this piano we were, maybe, for 1
month here (after returning from Japan) and the piano regulation was just
horrible... very instable and very bad condition... the hammers had already
been very much filled (badly) and their shape was very irregular! We´ve
done complet regulation from Bedind Screws to voicing but the sound results
were not satisfactory to me (for the owner was good...)... I´ve been trying
several things and finally i advise the guy to replace the hammers but he
told me they were very expensive... and that´s why i´m asking... because i
dont have experience with other hammers changing... only Yamaha hammers... 
>I´ll report what i´ll do
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>Best reagards
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>José Fernando Neto da Rocha
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Roger Jolly
Balwin Yamaha Piano Centres.
Saskatoon/Regina.
Canada.