Voicing the new piano - steaming procedure

[James Baker]

I will be incorporating Roger Jolly's method, but I also use a clothes
steamer and I can bathe the hammers in steam or press the steamer directly
to the hammer in specific areas to gang voice 3 to 5 hammers at a time.

James Baker

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Wynne" <ptuner@optonline.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: Voicing the new piano - steaming procedure


> To those who have inquired about hammer steaming - this is what I do for a
> set of bright hammers:
>
> I use an electric teapot.  When the water's boiling, I sit at the (grand)
> piano with the action pulled out and lift each hammer over the steamy
spout
> for about 1/2 to 1 second.
>
> That's enough to make a difference, but not too much and sometimes I need
> to make a couple of passes.
>
> -Matt
>