Stage 4 88 hammer vs stage 4 73 hammer

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Hag 369
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Stage 4 88 hammer vs stage 4 73 hammer

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Is ther any difrence beetwen the hammers? Thanks for answer.
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Re: Stage 4 88 hammer vs stage 4 73 hammer

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I´d played both, before I bought the Stage4-73-"hammer" and found no difference. This compares to the info on the Nord website...
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Hag 369
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Re: Stage 4 88 hammer vs stage 4 73 hammer

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Thanks for the answer. I played both after asking and found differences in feel. Both are hammers but something different. The keyboard of the 73, its middle sensitivity is not similar to the middle of the 88, but rather heavier. The 88 also produces a richer sound than the 73. According to what I checked one by one.
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Re: Stage 4 88 hammer vs stage 4 73 hammer

Post by dansnord »

Hi, I had an HA 73 for about a year. I just traded it in for an HA 88. I don’t notice any difference in the keybed between the two. My guess is that this is more related to variances between batches of that tp/40 Fatar keybed rather than variances between the 73 and 88.
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