Voicing the new piano - steaming procedure

[Farrell]

Oh, good grief, are we back to showering with action parts (or do you do this in the tub James?)? We may be perverted, but at least we keep things clean!   ;-)

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Baker" <JamesBakerRPT@carolina.rr.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 11:31 PM
Subject: Re: Voicing the new piano - steaming procedure


> 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
> >
>