>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:09:58 -0400 From: "Ed Sutton" <ed440 at mindspring.com>: >The theater make up department may have some collodion. >It's used in stage make up. >Ed S. Ed, I checked theatrical supply places. They use rigid collodion. - we need collodion U.S.P. (flexible). The rigid stuff will act just like lacquer, from what I understand. Israel >Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:51:06 -0600 Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu> wrote: > I am going to add a bit to what I posted below about deep needling. >With bass hammers, it is often a temptation to say they sound okay as >is, and aren't worth the trouble to do the normal full shoulder >treatment (standard deep needling in the whole shoulder areas of all >hammers). In fact, all hammers of all "hard-pressed" hammers need this >to develop a full tonal range, and also to develop projection. If the >bass sounds dull, and those hammers haven't seen any needles, do the >normal 10 - 40 insertions of a 3 needle tool in each shoulder as a >first step, pretty deep (7-10 mm), standard pattern. Adding lacquer or >other juices to hard-pressed hammers _should_ be unnecessary except at >the very top and sometimes very bottom of the range. Hamburg hammers >are plenty dense, and needles ought to be all that is needed. (With >the caveat I think David Love mentioned about what you are trying to >get out of a board that may not have that possibility). >Fred >>On Jul 26, 2010, at 10:06 PM, Fred Sturm wrote: >>> On Jul 26, 2010, at 7:45 PM, Ed Sutton wrote: >>> >>> First try needling in the very low shoulders, what Andre Oorebeek >>> calls "the battery." >>> Not guaranteed, but I was recently very surprised to find that >>> sometimes it makes a big difference. >>> ES > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100727/dbff5311/attachment-0001.htm>
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