As an experiment and in frustration at old hammers that would not voice I treated the hammers in one of my rental pianos with lanolin. I figured that the old hammers would not soften no mater how many needles I put in them because they were like cardboard. I took some of the left-over anhydrous lanolin from making VJ lube melted it and tried to apply it to the striking point of the hammers. Unfortunately, it cooled to quick so I gave up and just applied it as a paste and then melted it into the hammers using my daughter's hair drier. (This technician is a real Bald-one) Immediate softening of the tone and now at the 6 month tuning still sounding sweet. I would not recommend this to everyone. These hammers had plenty of felt left, just too dry. It was a low cost solution to tinny sounding hammers. Larry Messerly RPT Prescott/Phoenix ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]
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