Hi Dale, Paul, Dale, as you know, we recently installed a set of Weickerts on a 9' Henry F. Miller. Very nice hammers - the whole package. Used acrylic/acetone in the top two octaves to bring them up to the same level as the rest of the piano. Not much more than "break-in fluid," really. And, honestly, less than 30 minutes needling. Most of that time spent just checking to be sure I wasn't overlooking something. Very little actual needling. The acrylic/acetone worked very well in terms of bringing the tone up and matching the overall tonal palette of the other hammers. Very warm sounding hammers. Great fundamental, and a really penetrating sound. "Out of the box" type of tone, and very nice. More like a Shigeru Kawai than a Steinway it that means anything to anyone. Client is very pleased. William R. Monroe On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:57 PM, <PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com> wrote: > I'd be interested in what people are finding that they have to do to > prepare them for any kind of fine voicing. Are there sections that needs > more hardening/needling? If hardening, what chemicals are working best? How > much? If needling in any general sense, where and how much? > > Paul > > In a message dated 11/18/2009 10:53:56 P.M. Central Standard Time, > erwinspiano at aol.com writes: > > Any body else out there with objective or subjective feedback. I'm just > working up a BB Mason but I haven't heard them yet. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091119/9d6603ed/attachment.htm>
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