There are no guarantees and experience doesn't necessarily confer quality and/or the approach you might be looking for. A conversation is important beforehand to establish the overall philosophy and to see if it's someone you want to work with. Since you are paying them, use the opportunity for learn and ask questions during the process if they are willing. Yes needles are the appropriate technique-no Snuggle, steaming, alcohol or pliers. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com Hi all, my U1 is about 1.25 years old and it gets approx 1-2 hours of play each day. It's been well regulated and I will tune it the day before it is voiced. I was thinking of having the hammers needled to try reduce some of the apparent overtones in the lower octaves. It is quite cumbersome when recording. a) How can I ensure the piano tech that I will hire can properly perform this work? (he apparently does a lot of the tuning/voicing of local concert grands and has been doing it for 25 years, or so I've been told.) b) Is needling the recommend technique for my situation? I just don't want to find that I'm unhappy with the result, and then have a set of 'damaged' hammers (essentially) Any other information would be helpful. -Tyler _____ New! Open Hotmail faster on the new MSN homepage! <http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9677400> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090831/20baabbc/attachment.htm>
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