Getting the high trebble right

[John Delacour]

At 20:58 +0200 13/6/08, StŽphane Collin wrote:

>Old hammers were lighter than the new ones, but new ones (Renner Wurzen AA)

What thickness of felt have you between the strike point and the 
moulding wood?  Quite often Abel gives you too much, which means you 
get far too long a contact with the string.  You can either inject a 
hard-setting dope at the point of the moulding or reshape the top of 
the hammer.  Applying dope from the top downwards will not achieve 
the effect you want.  Let the old hammer and the new bounce on a hard 
heavy surface and see how differently they behave.

JD