>One more thing on voicing. The tech uses deep needling directly AT THE STIKE >POINT! But he tells me that this is the Steinway method. I'll tell ya, this >would have normally been, for me, a Slam-Dunk dead give away for the current >problem. I have always thought that deep/excessive needling at the strike >point would DESTROY hammer firmness,(maybe not immediately, but soon) and >leave them totally useless for loud playing. So where *can* you needle a hammer that was repeatedly soaked in lacquer to "build the tone", if not the strike point, to have any effect? Also, I hope you aren't saying that the tech needled the strike point to try to bring UP the sound?????????? I think I'm confused, but I'm not sure. Ron N
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