[CAUT] Alcohol/water on Yamaha hammers

[Jim Busby]

Good call David.

If you call Yamaha they will tell your tech to use alcohol and water on
himself, but NOT on Yamaha hammers. Well, maybe they won't say it in
that many words, but they would definitely back you up. That is a no no
to them.

Jim Busby

-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of
David Love
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 6:31 PM
To: 'College and University Technicians'
Subject: RE: [CAUT] Alcohol/water on Yamaha hammers

I wouldn't allow it.  That type of voicing is for extreme cases.
Needles
will work very nicely on that instrument and that process is
controllable.
Water is not and neither is steam.  Nor does it accomplish what proper
voicing of that hammer is supposed to do.  It's a lazy man's way of
taking
the edge off.  Suggest they call the Yamaha technical people and ask
them
directly about water voicing their hammers.  

David Love
davidlovepianos@comcast.net