Don't you love it when things work? I'm still curious if the CLP would make the needles go into (and out of!) a rock hard hammer. I've run the voicing needles through my hair to make the needles go in easier - it works great, but only lasts for about one hammer. On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Gerald Groot <tunerboy3 at comcast.net> wrote: > *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* > > > > > > > > [image: 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. > > -- Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Olympia, WA www.pianova.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090702/a93aa08d/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/a93aa08d/attachment-0001.jpeg>
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