Needling Technique

[Richard Brekne]

As with every voicing technique, there is a method to the madness. Steaming can
work quite well, when done right... or even close to right. My experience with
it is that "hammer spring" is not destroyed at all when doing this. Actually,
short term, I get extremely good dynamics with judicious steaming.

Roger...yousa gonna have to take a trip to Europe and shows these fellows and
gals what this is all about...grin..

Even so... after being encouraged by Antares posts on the subject, I am
returning to needles at the present when dealing with good instruments. And I
like what I am learning.

There are always at least 26 ways to skin the average moose.

Isaac OLEG SIMANOT wrote:

> Hi
>
> Steaming, the first time I tried that tip the top of the hammer where juiced
> and so where the shoulders, so I let you imagine the result. The hammers
> look like pure potatoes, very difficult to have it back to a more regular
> form.
>
> As the juicing was not coloured it was not easy to see it (but I may admit I
> may have hear it ! oops!)
>
> Since, I did not have the opportunity (probably on low end hard hammers).
>
> What worry me with the method is that it may kill the hammer spring
> equilibrium state, wich is not so easy to obtain.
>
> Isaac OLEG

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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway
mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no