Voicing

[Alan R. Barnard]

Don't remember even talking about an option re: pretreated hammers. I have
talked with him a few times on the phone. Nice guy. But I ultimately placed
the order on his website: www.pin.ca/ari/hammer.htm

There is quite a bit of very useful info on his site, BTW, and I recommend
that newbies read through it. I just looked again: if there is any mention
of pretreating his hammers, I don't see it there.

Question is: What should I do now? Lacquer? I never heard of Plexiglas used
in this manner, only as hard plastic sheets.

Interesting thought, has anybody ever make hammers out of molded plastic or
other synthetic material instead of felt? Glass soundboards, plastic hammers
Teflon bushings (too bad the Steinway experiment wasn't the answer)--one
could envision a weatherproof piano.

Alan Barnard

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@cox.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: Voicing


>
> >            Ron
> >            This doesn't surprise me a bit. Ari ,at least in the past,
> > prejuiced all his hammer sets with a plexiglass solution to some degree
> > unless you specifically request none. He is fairly consistent about it
> > but sometimes some get stiffer than others. Great hammers. Still more
> > variables ehh
> >    Dale
>
>
> Dale,
>
> So did Alan specifically request non treated Isaacs? Alan, did you?
>
> And the Abels and Renners that so many folks like, even further hardening
> them in some cases, are so hard as to be unusable with my boards. In
pianos
> that don't get boards, I can use the Abels and Renners like everyone else.
> I have a cause and effect relationship with the board, far in excess of
any
> differences in hammer sets from set to set. So statistically, it's not the
> hammers - it's the boards.
>
> Do you find the Isaacs interchangeable with Renners or Abels in pianos
with
> your new boards as well as with original boards, or boards built to the
> original design?
>
> Ron N
>
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