Steinway Hammers

jolly roger baldyam@sk.sympatico.ca
Wed Jan 10 22:52 MST 2001


>The later method was adopted as S&S was rolling out their contract service 
>for "concert" instruments, and allowed technicians to fly in on a Friday 
>and leave Saturday with an instrument in "performance" condition.  On more 
>than one occasion, the poor sap left to take care of such an instrument has 
>had to reinvent the wheel to try to resurrect some semblance of tone and 
>control.

Hi Horace,
                 I'm one of the poor saps, "The Steinway tech" juiced the
heck out of the crown of the hammers, with what I'm sure was keytop
hardener. The regular hall tech called me in a panic about 30 days after
the dirty deed.   The piano sounded as if it had swinging bricks instead of
hammers.
I used about a half a pint of acetone to flush the crap further in. the
outcome was suprisingly good. 
Now the hall has a policy that NO out side tech's are permitted to tamper
with the action, unless supervised.
Some good post on this topic.
Regards Roger



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