Greetings, Roger, At 11:44 PM 1/10/01 -0600, you wrote: > 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. I think, perhaps, you were lucky. In two such cases of which I have direct knowledge, the hammers were so filled that repeated flooding with acetone had to be followed with blowing out what could be forced through the felt with an air hose (OSHA-safe, of course). I have hearsay knowledge of other such situations. Also, given the penchant for crown needling to the exclusion of other needle work, I have found sets that, even when one could flush down the keytop/whatever, had been so over-needled that it was necessary to start over with new hammers. No one was amused...but, hey!, they cashed the check, so the work must have been OK. >Now the hall has a policy that NO out side tech's are permitted to tamper >with the action, unless supervised. This is an area in which I have gotten downright unreasonable. No one else does anything but tune, if that. That is enough of a headache. >Some good post on this topic. Indeed. Best. Horace +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Horace Greeley, email: hgreeley@stanford.edu CNA, MCP, RPT Systems Analyst/Engineer voice: 650.725.9062 Controller's Office fax: 650.725.8014 Stanford University 651 Serra St., RM 100, MC 6215 Stanford, CA 94305-6215 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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