On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:20 PM, <tnrwim at aol.com> wrote: > > I'm wondering about the concept of steam voicing on lacquered hammers. > Will that even work well since we're dealing with actual hard substances in > the hammer--as opposed to hard felt? For instance, the treble hammers are > crusty hard. Rubbing a fingernail along the sides of the hammers reveals > this. > > John > > I have heard that you can tip the stack on it's side, and apply acetone to > the hammers, and then literally blowing out the lacquer with an air hose. > Yeah, I've heard that, too. We're not doing that, though. :-) > Since the minister is aware of what you're trying to do, it might not be > a bad idea to let him know that you're going to try different methods to > soften the hammers, but that not all of them might work, and that in the end > you will have to replace the hammers anyway. CYA > > Be done did that ... it's covered. :-) Talked with the music director about all that last week. Thanks, -- JF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101206/918e6278/attachment.htm>
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