This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment MessageAlan: my first question is: what kind of hammes are these? It = sounds like you used cold-pressed ones.=20 Patrick C. Poulson Registered Piano Technician Piano Technicians Guild ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Alan=20 To: Pianotech ; Pianotech=20 Sent: 8/20/2003 11:23 AM Subject: Dope needs dope dope I've made a batch of plastic keytop in acetone and am about to put it = on the new bass hammers that I installed in a Baldwin 6000. Even after = filing and many hours of playing, these hammers sound like mooshy = marshmallows floofing up against the strings. Questions: How much dope = per hammer? Where should I put it on the hammers and where should I NOT = put it? Any other dope dope appreciated.=20 Side note:=20 I did the Randy Potter course and have picked up much at PTG chapter = meetings and from you wonderful people on the list, but mostly it's been = on-the-job, on-my-own, and learn-from-your-mistakes for me over the last = three years. But it sure seems that there is a not very short list of = things that reeeeeally should be learned with tutelage--and this = includes voicing.=20 I think it just isn't sufficient to read about techniques; you have to = hear examples and learn to listen to subtleties that just aren't present = in 98.632% of the neglected pianos in rural America. Most customers = can't really hear or appreciate the difference and won't be paying for = it. So there is precious little practice opportunity. THIS piano, however, demands attention and resides in the practice = hall of some very professional musicians of the 399th Army Band. So I = must venture! Next conference, I'm going to spend the bucks and get into every = voicing workshop I can! Alan R. Barnard Salem, MO --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.512 / Virus Database: 309 - Release Date: 8/19/2003 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/8a/ab/6c/77/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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