hammer softener?

[Scott Jackson]

A few times people have used the word 'sugercoat'.
What do you mean?
I assume you don't mean coat with sugar.

Scott Jackson


----- Original Message -----
From: "SUSAN P SWEARINGEN" <ssclabr8@flash.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, 16 July 2002 8:07
Subject: Re: hammer softener?


| I'm a fairly new technician and I feel my own piano (a Yamaha U1) is
a
| little to bright and harsh.  Using a 3-needle voicer with the
needles
| extended 1/16", I sugarcoated the strike points in the treble
hammers and
| boy, what a huge differnece it made.  No more "ping" and a much
softer and
| richer sound.  It only took 5 minutes but the piano now sounds like
a new
| instrument.  So, why use softener when a little sugarcoating seems
to do the
| trick?  Maybe the softener lasts longer.
|