O! NOooo00, needling the crown or Steam??

[KeyKat88 at aol.com]

Greetings, 

         That looks like a great method I am going to try it. It works with 
new hammers, does it work with very old hammers that are hard? Today I had a 
job to soften the tone of this ca,1920's piano's hammers. No matter how much I 
needled the things they were like stale dry pieces of bread.. o...r... ancient 
marshmellows of antiquity..... I even shallow needled the "forbidden" strike 
zone (oooOOO NO,, MR BILL.. DONT....oo...oooo  O NOoooooo!}  (thats what I say 
to myself when  I have to needle the crown...even if its shallowly, I feel 
guilty) I almost couldn't do a dang thing with them. Well, the tone did get 
alittle softer. Carding and needling did improve the tone, but not as much as I had 
expected.

Julia
Reading, PA
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