Density of Hammer Mouldings

[Tom Servinsky]

Yes. Ronsen routinely makes their hammers with the soft white maple. My drug 
of choice....
Tom Servinsky
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Delacour" <JD at Pianomaker.co.uk>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: Density of Hammer Mouldings


> At 16:46 -0400 21/9/08, Tom Servinsky wrote:
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>>Soft white maple will be one of the, if not the, lightest of all molding 
>>choices.
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> But is soft maple (relative density up to 0.56) used for hammer mouldings? 
> Hard maple is about 0.8, almost the same as the hornbeam that is used in 
> Europe, where maple is not used.
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> Details of many woods can be found here:
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> <http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/wood/english/>
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> JD
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