I wont answer all these questions, as you have gotten plenty of good stuff already. I just have one little trick I learned once to throw your way. Ed Foote talked about a non-linear resiliancy that one tries to create. One way of helping this along is to have two bottles handy. One with your 8:1 or 10:1 or whatever solution, and one with pure thinner. Soak your hammers with the laquer solution, and after seeing that it has soaked in about as far as its going to, add a couple two to three drops of thinner right on the top. This has a nice little habit of forcing more laquer deeper into the felt, leaving less just under the surface. Makes things very non linear indeed. As others have said.. Voiceing with laquer is at least a two visit kinda job. I personally like to wait a full week in between visits, and I ask the owner to play the piano a lot in between. Perhaps this is over kill, but perhaps not, in anycase it allows the owner to get sorta over adjusted to suddenly much louder hammers and then when I come for the evening out process I am almost 100 % guaranteed that the customer will just love my work... Just a side note to Bill one this last comment....grin... this is by no means any form of a con job... but it is using basic psychology to my advantage... thats fair aint it ???? :):) -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway
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