Voicing with Bartolomeo

[Roger Jolly]

Hi Jerry,
         To card or reshape hammers, is to file them, removing mass off the
sides of hammers can achieve two or three things. 1.Reduces impact tone,
can get rid of woody like sound. 2.Lower the down touch weight. 3.
Depending on felt quality, speed up rebound, and thus altering tone.

Some piano wire is coated in tallow, a clean string will sound cleaner, no
pun intended, cleaning wire can some times reduce false beats, and increase
sustain.
 
Maybe I should re read the artical?

Regards Roger



At 09:26 PM 5/4/99 -0500, you wrote:
>In The Bartolomeo Chronicles in this month's Journal (i.e. May 1999),
>among the voicing procedures mentioned are "card hammer sides" and "wipe
>the strings with alcohol". What is "carding hammer sides", and what is
>the reason for wiping strings with alcohol.
>
>Thanks in advance for the cyber-education.
>
>Regards
>-- 
>Jerry Hunt
>Associate member PTG
>Dallas, TX
>
Roger Jolly
Balwin Yamaha Piano Centres.
Saskatoon/Regina.
Canada.