Remember though it depends on the solids solution. Steinway lacquer is lo solids and so a stronger solution was used. Off the shelf lacquers can be higher solids content and so will require a weaker solution. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Mccoy, Alan Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 1:57 PM To: CAUTlist Subject: Re: [CAUT] Hammer-Lac Back in 1990 when I did the tone seminar the whole hammer was being soaked (with 6:1 as I recall). Alan -- Alan McCoy, RPT Eastern Washington University amccoy at ewu.edu 509-359-4627 (message Pacific time) 509-999-9512 (cell Pacific time) _____ 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100218/4e08ecfd/attachment.htm>
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