Fred Drasche was a career Steinway Concert Technician. He used to refer to the front side of the hammer as the "carry side" and the backside of the hammer was the attack side. He believed that on a fast blow the hammer would overcenter the strike point on the hammer and hit string on the backside (attack side). Similarily, on very soft to medium blows it would be the front side (carry). If you want to produce more attack sound then, you place more hardener on the attack side of the hammer. He also said you only get one chance to apply lacquer. This is because the lacquer is a barrier unto itself. A subsequent application will not penetrate to a deeper level within the hammer. Michael Wathen ----- Original Message ----- From: itunepiano at aol.com To: caut at ptg.org Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 7:06 PM Subject: [CAUT] Voicing Steinway D During a 3 day Concert Prep on a 10 year old D, I added Lacquer to power up the piano. Lacquer would not soak into the key side of the hammers but did soak easily into the backcheck side of the hammers. I applied the lacquer on the lmid shoulders only, not from the side of the hammer. Is it an accepted voicing technique to lacquer one side of the hammer and not the other? What are the advantages or disadvantages? Bob. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20080104/f6778951/attachment.html
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