[pianotech] Cold Pressed hammers was: Voicing the new Mason & Hamlins

[David Stanwood]

>David Stanwood wrote:
>>  I'm delighted to see the recent move away from so much hot pressing of
>>  hammers. (although I haven't seen such a move in this respect on the part
>>  of manufacturers yet..)

>Hailun is cold pressing hammers.  About five years ago our European
>partners, Wendl & Lung, shipped several hammer presses, approaching 100
>years old, to China.  They sat in Customs for years, because the Chinese
>government would not allow the importation of "obsolete" technologies, over
>40 years old.  It took a while to convince them that the latest is not
>necessarily the greatest.

>Frank Emerson

A new old trend...

Cool!

http://hailun-pianos.com/hammerheads.php

Thanks,

David