voicing hammers

[Avery Todd]

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Ping Pong balls??????? Never heard of that before!

Avery

At 01:42 PM 5/15/05, you wrote:
>Hello Joe,
>
>thanks for your reply.
>
>Yes, I will share the receipe of the yamaha hammer hardener:
>take 1 liter of aceton, and 4 ping-pong balls (or 50cl with 2 balls, of 
>course). Put it in a bottle of glass until the balls are totally melted in 
>the aceton. Then you just have to put some small quantities of hardener in 
>small bottles with a pipette to carry it in your toolbag.
>I haven't tested the hardener myself, but I heard the result when the 
>yamaha tech "juiced" the CFIIIS hammers, after the pianist had complained 
>about the lack of brillance in the treble area.
>BTW, don't forget to only use WHITE TABLE TENNIS BALLS ;-) an orange ball 
>would result an orange hammer, but hey, why not ? ;-)
>
>Concerning your second reply, to me fine regulation pushes the piano to 
>its limits to a certain point, but when you have to deal with a pianist 
>who wants very very bright sound (like Horowitz wanted, for example), what 
>can you do except hardening the hammers before the concert?
>It's been only 5 years that I am in the profession, and this is the kind 
>of questions I am asking to myself, trying to find answers, if there are 
>answers, though... ! ;-)
>
>Quentin

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