---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Andre=20 I agree with the reasoning of what youre' saying but The Ronsen hammer on= =20 mahogony moldings can be tapered,arced & coved to be esentially the same=20 weight as the original Steinway hammers. I've done it many times & the sound= is=20 good. In fact Ray Negron at Ronsen said recently that John Patton of Steinway= =20 said that Ray's hammers are as close to the originals as any thing made toda= y=20 both in weight & density. Quite a compliment. I use primarily his hammer tha= t=20 uses the felt he buys from Abel. Regard--Dale Yes but the immediate problem you get is when you replace the original=20 hammers as well, because in this case the weight of the hammers is very=20 crucial. It means getting a new hammer that weighs exactly as much as the=20 original. There is no hammer maker who produces exactly that hammer, so you have=20 to modify a new set of hammers and you have to almost ruin that new set=20 of hammers to get back to the original weight. I have seen many attempts to do so and they all looked ridiculous, the=20 tails were still too long and in the end they were still too heavy=20 anyway because the materials used nowadays are different and weigh more=20 than the original hammers of which for instance the original felt was=20 much less dense than VFG felt Abel uses. More lead in the keys will complete the usual and well known=20 catastrophe. My 2 Euro cents Andr=E9 Oorebeek ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/70/74/4c/68/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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