David - Thanks for the reply. All good points. I do have some hammer samples to try, but this is not among them. After talking to John at Brooks, Ltd. I thought this would be another good candidate to include in the mix. It seems like it COULD be a good match for this venue. We'll see.... Mark --- On Wed, 10/7/09, David Love <davidlovepianos at comcast.net> wrote: Not to be a troublemaker (and I’m a bit late in this discussion), but the question that’s being asked is wrong, in my view. Almost all the hammers we have access to are well made and are capable of producing acceptable tone under the right circumstances. The question that should be asked is which hammer best suits the other conditions that this job calls for which must include soundboard health and response plus customer goals—characteristics that are unique to each situation. The idea of finding a favorite hammer should really be dismissed. It’s finding the right hammer for the instrument in question, it’s own particular soundboard characteristics along with the tonal goal of the customer (or venue) that should guide us, not someone else’s experience on a completely different piano with, perhaps, a completely different tonal goal in mind. Bottom line, you have to sample and you should have several different hammers in your sample kit. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091007/c5ae45be/attachment.htm>
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