Some of the lubricants mentioned may help, but too often it won't make enough difference. Developing a hammer lever technique for these pianos will make a bigger difference. Please do not read this as "your hammer technique stinks." Different pianos require different techniques. You might want to check out Different Strokes - Hammer Techniques for Piano Technicians by Ken Burton, RPT. It is available from Randy Potter, see pianotuning.com/products/books.htm. Ken looks at 24 different techniques. You don't need all of them in your repertoire, but several are for pianos like you describe. Bruce Dornfeld, RPT bdornfeld at earthlink.net North Shore Chapter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090605/87576b9c/attachment.htm>
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