[CAUT] Hammer-Lac

[David Ilvedson]

8:1 solution?

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Fred Sturm" <fssturm at unm.edu>
To: caut at ptg.org
Received: 2/18/2010 1:02:57 PM
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