[CAUT] Hammer-Lac

[Mccoy, Alan]

Back in 1990 when I did the tone seminar the whole hammer was being soaked (with 6:1 as I recall).

Alan


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From: Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu>
Reply-To: CAUTlist <caut at ptg.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:02:57 -0800
To: CAUTlist <caut at ptg.org>
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Hammer-Lac


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







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