Hi Alex There are many purported Steinway Experts everywhere but what you need is a voicing expert & someone expereinced with working with the Steinway Style of voicing. I currently find the Factory hammers very workable with exception but as in Flying accidents, 99% of the time it's pilot error. The same is true in the siuation you describe. When voiced correctly by filing the hammers to the Steinway recommended shape,ironing & then applying appropriate mixtures lacquer hardening solutions the sound can be quite glorious. All this is contigent on the sound board health , downbearing & strings being in good working order. Dale Erwin I visited a customer that called for a tuning of a Steinway Model M from the 70's. While tuning I realize the sound was so pronouncedly muffled that I mentioned to her the need to voice it. To my surprise she mentioned the hammers had been replaced a year or two ago by an allegedly Steinway certified technician. She was formerly so dissatisfied with the sound of the piano afterwords that she never called him back. I wonder what would be recommended in this case to make the hammers a bit harder to recover the more normal brilliance of the Steinway sound. Alex Gluzmann, Buenos Aires. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20060325/e0f86b08/attachment.html
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