Hello list. Well, here's the outcome. The Protek CLP that I spilled on the hammers did not make one bit of difference in the tone of the hammers. If anything at all, it might have made it a tad better! More mellow sounding. Before I started working on this piano which according to the serial number, was built in the 60's with brass billings hammer flanges of all things, the tone was just horrible. Very dull with no life at all. It was so bad that I wondered if I could actually improve it much or not without replacing them. Someone had filed the hammers flat on the striking point where it was left that way for many years. The hammers were very uneven as far as spacing was concerned and regulation was way off. It also had bobbling hammers. I had to be very careful filing because I didn't have a lot of hammer felt left to make any mistakes on but I did have enough. By the time I was done filing hammers they had some sort of proper contour back on them again as they should. When I was done spacing them, I was actually VERY surprised at how much more the tone had improved just from proper filing and spacing of the hammers. It brought the tone right back out again. We (my son and I) leveled the keys (yes, we crowned them), regulated the action and key dip and we were both very pleased with the outcome of it. Once again it sounds and plays like a Steinway should sound. Thanks for your advice on the CLP! Maybe we should try using it as a new voicing tool! :-) Jer Jerry.5 _____ avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com> : Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 090702-0, 07/02/2009 Tested on: 7/2/2009 11:09:46 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090702/2db6241e/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 14480 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090702/2db6241e/attachment-0001.jpeg>
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