This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Orange hammers?! Hey, in Tennessee that would be vogue! Thanks for the = idea! Go Big Orange!!! Joy! Elwood Elwood Doss, Jr., RPT Piano Technician/Technical Director Department of Music 145 Fine Arts Building University of Tennessee at Martin Martin, TN 38238 731-881-1852 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Quentin Codevelle=20 To: pianotech=20 Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 1:42 PM Subject: voicing hammers Hello Joe,=20 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 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/fe/60/de/45/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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