In a message dated 7/14/2006 7:43:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, dlawson at davidlawsonspianos.com.au writes: G'day Friends. Whilst voicing a new Kawai K-3 model the other day I got thinking about this age old question of needling the front of the hammer. We were always taught that it was a no no, right? Well there are times when you just have to, and this job I was doing required it. By going by the book, I would have achieved nothing, where as, a very tiny touch to the string indentation did the job I required, after I had carried out the 'correct' procedure, that is. Am I getting frowns from all and sundry about this, or is it acceptable by some of you to go out of the square? My belief is that as long as you don't go crazy and damage the fibres of the hammer, you are doing no harm, just improving the tone. Over to you. David Lawson. Wangaratta. Australia. Greetings, O! VERBOTEN!! I needle the "verboten" (German for forbidden) area all the time. Its the only way to mellow out some of these hammers that are grooved and have been played and played and played and played.. and neglected. So I shallow needle the shrill, glassy sounding things and they mellow out, not deep now, but right on that strike point. As someone said earlier on this forum.."Its all custom work." I like that. Who was that? Julia Gottshall Reading, PA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20060721/b38419b0/attachment.html
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