I suppose the steam just soften the outer layer of the felt. The main problem is the glue in the hammerfelt. They probably use very short haired felt which needs a lot of glue to keep together. The real solution is to change the hammers to some of good quality so you can voice them. Wayne Walker <wayne.w at musicstop.com> skrev: Message I have a customer with a newer Chinese piano with harsh sounding hammers. I have tried chemical softener, needled and the piano still sounds bad. The customer has chemical sensitivity so I can't use anything in her home now. I was there a couple of weeks ago and used the steam method on the hammers and it work great. I was happy and the customer was happy, but today she left a voice mail saying the piano is harsh sounding again. How long will the steam method last? Will I need to do this often? I just want to have a happy customer with out having to swap pianos with her. Wayne Wayne Walker Piano Tuner / Technician Musicstop Acoustic Piano Service 264 Herring Cove Road Halifax, NS, Canada B3P 1M1 902-221-1540 902-496-0041 Fax www.musicstop.com --------------------------------- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 2398 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try SPAMfighter for free now! No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.8.13/843 - Release Date: 6/10/2007 1:39 PM --------------------------------- Går det långsamt? Skaffa dig en snabbare bredbandsuppkoppling. Sök och jämför hos Yahoo! Shopping. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070613/472035c3/attachment.html
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