Where on earth did he find Baldwin hammers that needed to be harder! dave Lawrence Becker wrote: > Dear List: > > Nevin Essex, one of our colleagues here in Cincinnati, had been flying > around the country doing some high-end regulation/voicing/troubleshooting > on Baldwin Artists' home pianos. For a voicing solution that he could get > on an airline with, he came up with granulated shellac, which he would mix > with locally-available denatured alcohol once in his destination city. > Shellac is easy to work with, seeming to generate fewer undesirable high > partials and more gutsy volume than pyralin or lacquer. It seems to me > that piano manufacturers stopped using it not because lacquer sounds better > in the piano hammer, but because lacquer was better as a cabinet finish, > and so that's what was sitting around. > I think it would do an especially good job on the shoulders of bass > hammers, or even under their strikepoint (if hammer softness is the problem.) > > ---------------------------------- > Lawrence Becker, RPT > College-Conservatory of Music > University of Cincinnati > ---------------------------------- -- _______________________________________________ David M. Porritt, RPT Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, Texas mailto:dporritt@swbell.net _______________________________________________
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