<< Anyway, I did not pursue the matter with Steinway. Has anyone here done so? The "pre-voicing" seems to me to be a fairly heavy lacquering. Can lacquer-free hammers be had at all from Steinway? >> The last two sets of their hammers were soft, soft, soft. I don't think they had any hardner in them. I had to juice them heavily to make the piano speak. I differ with the current Steinway method,. I squirt it on from the low shoulder and let it wick upwards, rather than soaking them from the contact point downward. Ed Foote RPT http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
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