On Feb 18, 2010, at 1:33 PM, Laurence Libin wrote: > Are you sure that Steinway still dopes the entire hammer? > Laurence Yes, the whole set of hammers is dipped in lacquer prior to being cut apart. Unless that changed within the past year, which seems unlikely. They started doing that maybe 3-4 years ago. This is before the voicer does anything in the way of adding lacquer. Previously, it was pretty standard procedure for the voicer to soak the whole set, after having listened to it. Meaning utterly saturate. Exactly how many years that was standard, I don't know. I don't believe it was standard as recently as 30 years ago. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100218/94c50e5d/attachment.htm>
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