Plastic or Wood Hammers?

[morning bell]

Hi.  I'm in the market for a rhodes and am wondering if i should be looking for one with plastic or wood hammers?  any suggestions, opinions, and general info would be greatly appreciated.

thanks.

mb

[hrees]

Plastic hammer rhodes are easier to work on and easy to get a sensitive action from. The 1/2 wood 1/2 plastic hammer rhodes sound good but once things go wrong they take a lot of patience to put right. Later models can be made to sound like the earlier models with the right voicing etc.

[morning bell]

thanks for the info.  much appreciated.

[mimicthis]

from what i hear wooden hammers have more of a
"bite" to them.
the plastic hammers gave a more mellow sound...