Posted by Rick Denney on September 06, 2002 at 18:12:59:
In Reply to: Re: Re: If handmade is better - why? posted by Volker on September 06, 2002 at 17:24:08:
It would depend. If Walter Nirschl hand-tweaks the machine-made instruments, I'm pretty sure they would be virtually indistinguishable from the ones he hammered himself. But if it's a fellow at the Boosey and Hawkes factory doing the tweaking, I wouldn't have that confidence.
But I have played Meinl-Weston 2155's, and I've played Meinl-Weston 2000's, and the difference is supposedly that the latter is hand-made. In my own experience, it is definitely a better instrument, but I suspect the careful hand-tweaking has more to do with that than the hand-hammering.
Rick "who still would not pay for a MW2000, even if he was a pro" Denney