I'd still try adding weight in the form of clips to the shanks first. To add a bit of brightness try polishing the hammers with some very fine paper, 800 or 1500 grit. All that shouldn't take that long and is better than something you may regret. The piano will brighten up on its own soon enough in this type of situation. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Paul McCloud Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 3:11 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Hardening Hammers in Pearl River ContinentalConsole??????? We have just started selling Pearl River pianos. They aren't the same as the ones even a year or so ago. The hammers are much softer than the claw hammers they used to come with. The soundboards are also laminated (may change soon), and have a "tighter" sound than a similar sized piano we carry. Adding hardeners may possibly help some, but I'd only do one or two to check out how they sound before doing them all. YMMV. Paul Mccloud Tech, PianoSD.com San Diego -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100203/d36ddeb9/attachment.htm>
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