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[Fred S. Sturm]

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Steve,
    A year or so ago, I posted about soaking lacquer (or keytop) out of
hammers, using troughs made of gallon thinner can corners (cut off with
tin snips to make triangular profile troughs, about an octave and a half
of hammers long). Dipping the hammers into the troughs filled with a mix
of acetone and lacquer thinner, letting sit, swishing, discarding,
blotting with paper towel; then doing same again. Worked wonders. I
highly recommend the process (especially in preference to drenching with
whatever solvent, letting it run over the tails). It'll get you awfully
close to pristine hammers.
Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico

Steve Kabat wrote:

> Yo list-    I'm afraid that in lacquering a set of Steinway D hammers
> I started with too weak a solution(5:1), and now after multiple
> lacquerings I still have no "punch" in the treble from about E56 to
> the top.  The lacquer (3 and 4:1) at this point is just not
> penetrating to the tip of the molding as has been suggested in many of
> the fine and eminently valuable posts I've been poring over lo these
> many months. What's a tuner to do? I can hear that the sound is weak
> or "hollow" in the treble compared to the lower end, but am frustrated
> because I feel that I need to get something deep into the hammer but
> it ain't goin' there. Any suggestions would be most welcome.  Steve
> Kabats.kabat@csuohio.edu

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