Steam treating hard hammers

[Wayne Walker]

No, the piano is not POS. We have been selling pianos from China for about
10 years and have bought from different factories. At first we had pianos
from 1 factory that were POS but this piano and others from 2 other
factories are better quality. Just this one seem to have problems with the
hammers. I will not tell my customer through the thing out, the piano was
bought as an anniversary present by her husband from our store. I just
trying to make things right for this customer, if necessary we may have to
change hammers or give her another piano. I 'm trying fix the problem before
we have to go to that route.
 
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
HYPERLINK "http://www.musicstop.com/"www.musicstop.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Joy McNabb [mailto:joyfmb at msn.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 10:25 AM
To: Pianotech List
Subject: Re: Steam treating hard hammers


Is the Chinese piano a PSO?  I am having to play on a Hallet-Davis new baby
grand that sounds like a  piece of junk-won't hold a tune and I don't even
think voicing will help this POS.  Through the thing out!!!
 
Joy McNabb

----- Original Message ----- 
From: HYPERLINK "mailto:piano57 at insightbb.com"Barbara Richmond 
To: HYPERLINK "mailto:pianotech at ptg.org"Pianotech List 
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: Steam treating hard hammers

Hi Wayne,
 
Hmm.  Is this a grand or an upright?  What are the accoustics in the room
like?
 
I haven't worked on any Chinese pianos. (What?! How could that be?)  Did you
just treat the crown, or did you work on the shoulders, too?  Sorry, since I
haven't worked on any of these I can only think in general terms of voicing,
so I'm just guessing.  What type of needling did you do?  Needles, shallow
and perpendicular to the crown?--or taking longer stitches under the string
groves?  Anyway, on hard pressed hammers, just taking a swipe at the crown
probably isn't going to give lasting or satisfactory results.  It would be
best to soften the shoulders, too--it will broaden the tone--by increasing
resiliency of the hammer/increasing the sustain.  Did you try vise-grips on
the shoulders?  Squeeze enough to make the hammer felt cup a bit and then
needle out the cup. 
 
I hope something here helps.
 
Barbara Richmond, RPT
living a protected life near Peoria, IL   

----- Original Message ----- 
From: HYPERLINK "mailto:wayne.w at musicstop.com"Wayne Walker 
To: HYPERLINK "mailto:pianotech at ptg.org"pianotech at ptg.org 
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 2:34 PM
Subject: Steam treating hard hammers

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
HYPERLINK "http://www.musicstop.com/"www.musicstop.com

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