Steinway Hammers

Horace Greeley hgreeley@stanford.edu
Thu Jan 11 01:17 MST 2001


Hi, Del,

I knew the energizer bunny was out there somewhere.

I remember a class you gave some years ago on hammers/etc.  Would you 
please shed some light on manufacturing issues?

Thanks.

Best.

Horace



At 10:16 PM 1/10/01 -0800, you wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "jolly roger" <baldyam@sk.sympatico.ca>
>To: <caut@ptg.org>
>Sent: January 10, 2001 9:44 PM
>Subject: Re: Steinway Hammers
>
>
> > 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.
>
>-------------------------------
>
>But that's the beauty of the stuff, Roger. It works fast and it keeps
>getting harder, and harder, and harder, and.......
>
>Del



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