Voicing Help

[David Ilvedson]

Kat...

Also consider hammer filing before you voice...a nice smooth surface is a good starting point...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: KeyKat88 at aol.com
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 5/4/2008 3:32:40 PM
Subject: Voicing Help


>Greetings,
> 
>         I usually shallow needle  my Yami's U3 hammers after tuning to take 
>off the "glassy" edge. However,  after 10+ years of playing on this piano 
>(This is my personal piano),  sugar-coating ain't cutting it anymore.  The hammers 
>sound  ear-piercing. I side needled the area just in front of the wood core,  
>but this only alleviated the ear piercing sound a little. These hammers  were 
>packed hard too!  Is Yamaha hammer  quality the problem?  What am I doing 
>wrong? ...or aren't I needling  enough?  
> 
>Thanks
>Julia Gottshall
>Reading, PA 



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