Now there's one I haven't heard of before! I'm hoping that doesn't mean you comb your hair with CLP ;) (I hear PVC-E makes great mousse!) Scott ------ Scott A. Helms, Registered Piano Technician 480-818-3871 www.helmsmusic.net > 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 >
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