hammer softening liquid

[Tom Servinsky]

Brian,
I too would stick with needles on this one. Baldwin hammers are not stapled
and I had several situations in the past
with school practice room pianos where the hammers were as hard as rocks. I
tried this solution and yes the solution did soften the hammer but I  also
ended up with some hammers popping apart.
The Baldwin hammers are notorious for weakness in the hammer structure and
adding water based solutions only weakens it that much more.
Just my opinion and experience.
Tom Servinsky,RPT

> Brian:
>
> Did you say that the customer didn't want you to use needles, or were you
> asking if there was a way to do it without needles?  I read your message
to
> mean the later.  My advice is use needles.  The small voicing tool for
> uprights made by Yamaha (held between your thumb and forefinger) with a
> single needle in it will give you enough maneuverability to work
> effectively.  Liquids are a shortcut to disaster if you don't know what
> you're doing and it is likely not the best approach anyway.
>
> David Love
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <JIMRPT@AOL.COM>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: January 11, 2002 3:13 PM
> Subject: Re: hammer softening liquid
>
>
> >
> > In a message dated 11/01/02 4:01:41 PM, doepke@fwi.com writes:
> >
> > <<" I have a client who wishes me to soften up the tone his Baldwin
> Hamilton.
> >
> > Without needling the hammers,...................
> >
> > He seemed a little leery of applying anything to the hammers to soften
the
> >
> > tome. ">>
> >
> > Brian;
> >  If he doesn't want you to needle or use applications of something the
> only
> > thing left that I am aware of is the ole Vise Grip
method..............you
> > are kinda at the clients mercy here......I think I would explain what is
> > possible..........give him the option to choose which method y'all are
> gonna
> > use and make it 'his' responsibility...chances are that nothing you do
> will
> > be satisfactory to him(just a gut feeling)......
> > Jim Bryant (FL)
> >
>