ryan sowers wrote: >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. > > > I gotta side with David Love here, and others that take this position. Hammers that require draconian treatments such as pliers-mashing to get them soft enough to at all useable are not high quality piano hammers to begin with. Ok ok... lots of cheapos use such hammers... and a mans gotta do what a mans gotta do and all that I am sure... but decent voicing on decent instruments does not involve this kind of thing. Cheers RicB > > >--- 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 > > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! >http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > >
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