At 06:33 PM 8/22/97 -0400, you wrote: >Greetings all, > > I would like some outside opinions here, if you have them. Concerning >the practice of reducing the hammer size to regulate touch and tone as >proposed by Mr. McMorrow, I received the following letter: >>snip> >Regards, >Ed Foote >Precision Piano Works >Nashville, Tn Dear Ed, I do not have ANY personal experience with your question. However there is an interesting article in the September/October 1997 issue of _Piano and Keyboard Magazine_. The short article on page 23 is titled "A Tip for the Top", written by Robert Cloutier. "Getting your Steinway piano to speak with a clear sustaining treble voice is not so much a matter of what's there, as what should 'not' be there." In this article Mr. Cloutier advocates improving the tone of a piano by removing some excess mass from the hammer mouldings by using a rat-tail file. Read the article and draw your own conclusions. By the way,Robert Cloutier is the Senior Piano Technician at the University of Oregon, Eugene. *Off-Topic below* Other highlights of this issue of Piano and Keyboard magazine: Page 8 - Letters - A letter from Marshall B. Hawkins, RPT, President of the PTG. "Piano Technology - the Missing Career" Page 66 - Advertisement, pianos for sale - 1875 Steinway Style 2, 7' 2", French Burled Walnut, $125,000.00 Page 70 - 1/4 page advertisement by the PTG about what it means to be an RPT Page 78 - Advertisement for the Stanwood Patented Touch Design System Sincerely, David A. Vanderhoofven, RPT Joplin, Missouri, USA e-mail: dkvander@clandjop.com web page: http://www.clandjop.com/~dkvander/ #pianotech page: http://www.clandjop.com/~dkvander/ircpiano.html
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