---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Ric Eric is a personal friend & fine Human being . I have made similar assertions on many occasion to this effect on list. Eric & I have hashed over voicing techniques for many years on many occasions & on all these salient points we agree. It's nice to have ones own opinions re-enforced by your associates. That being said I've heard finely voiced Hamburgs as well & enjoyed then too. The only problem is usually the needling has not gone far enough & the under lying core remains too stiff & the edgy sound rears its' ugly head. When this is tamed the sound can be truly lush. Dale The reason given for Steinways choice in using the lacquer approach is because they feel they do not get the sound they want with needled hammers. I.e. Eric, and Steinway NY are of the opinion that lacquered hammers yield a different sound then needled hammers. He cited more power as one alleged asset, voicing stability as another, and a larger dynamic range due to the very localized affect of needle placement when voicing for soft shift play. Course he didnt really see any advantages to the Hamburg approach.. but then he was from NY :) He DID state that it was his believe that prior to WWII all hammers all over the world needed lacquer. FWIW Cheers RicB ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/ff/b1/b0/46/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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