feasable voicing tool modification??

[ryan sowers]

I disagree that this technique is a last resort. Wally
Brooks, in a presentation on voicing newly installed
Abel hammers recommended this technique. Also Darrell
Fandrich has also recommended this technique on newly
installed Abel or Renner hammers. 

I think of it as "deep tissue massage" for hammers.




--- David Love <davidlovepianos@earthlink.net> wrote:
> You squeeze them because you can't get a needle in
> there to save your life.  It's a last resort
> technique.   Squeezing the shoulders in the 10:30
> and 1:30 region creates that cushion effect that you
> normal try to achieve with needles.  You can file
> the face of the grips flat so that you don't leave
> little textured markings on the side of the hammers,
> though you will still leave a little rectangular
> imprint.  It's difficult to hide all the evidence.  
> 
> David Love
> davidlovepianos@earthlink.net
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: 
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Sent: 7/25/2004 9:12:12 PM 
> Subject: Re: feasable voicing tool modification??
> 
> 
> Greetings, 
> 
>            Why would one squeeze the hammers with a
> vice grips for voicing? Or is the vice grips tool of
> which you speak,  have a special attatchment or
> something? I am assuming that squeezing hammers
> would help to soften them.
> 
> Julia, 
> Reading, PA 


=====
Ryan Sowers, RPT  Puget Sound Chapter
Pianova Piano Service
Olympia, WA


		
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