Voicing

[jolly roger]

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At 08:37 PM 9/18/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Hmmm. Seems like you'd have to really know the hammers you were 
>hanging--from experience with the brand and "style." I was talked into 
>(only way I can say it) A. Isaac upright hammers for a Baldwin 6000. Those 
>suckers were so soft they sounded like marshmallows on sticks. So rather 
>than making pincushions out of them, I'd be more inclined to pour on the 
>lacquer before a put in another set of those. But, having only used them 
>once and having only installed new hammers 4 times, I wouldn't dare do 
>anything until I'd had them in the piano to evaluate. Am I on-track here, 
>or missing vital information?
>
>Alan Barnard

HI Alan,
               You are wise to test the hammers in the piano before you do 
any voicing.
  A few brands of hammers, I know so well, I just needle them down to save 
a lot of needling under the voicing block.  Clamping them in sections on 
the bench and rough needling them down is fast to get them in the ball 
park.  I have never had too soft Yamaha, Abel or Renner hammers.
Roger

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