Tacks in hammers

[Bud Schwab]

Hi Clyde,

It probably wasn't too good for the hammers, but they were designated as 
honky tonk pianos so were never used for anything else.  Yes, I think it 
would do a little voicing on the hammers with those tacks removed.  They 
were mostly uprights.  They rarely did it to a grand.

Regards

Bud

At 10:08 PM 11/24/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Bud,
>
>Doesn't it ruin the hammers to put tacks in them?  Or was the value of the 
>piano
>low enough that it didn't really matter?
>
>Regards, Clyde
>
>Bud Schwab wrote:
>
> > Hi gang,
> >
> > When I was tuning for MGM in the 60's and 70's we would put small tacks in
> > the hammers to produce the honky tonk sound.  I believe we used those
> > little tacks that you use to install bridle straps.  I would put three side
> > by side in the trichords and two in the bichords.  It gave quite a good
> > sound.  Can't tell you any more what movies they were all used in but there
> > quite a few and never had any complaints.  I learned that trick from the
> > previous MGM tuner.
> >
> > Bud
> >
> > >In reply to Ed Foote's comments about tuning one string of the trichord a
> > >bit high, I have also offered a "special effects tuning", which is a
> > >honky tonk sound. But my idea was to tune one of the trichords DOWN
> > >slightly. No one has taken me up on the offer yet, so I haven't actually
> > >done it.
> > >
> > >Have any others tried this? How did you do it? Did it work well? Did you
> > >retune the piano afterwards to normal?
> > >
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                                                 Bud Schwab
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Malibu, california