This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment -----Original Message----- From: Wimblees@aol.com [mailto:Wimblees@aol.com] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 1:38 PM To: caut@ptg.org Subject: Re: Lacquering Hammers Wait to Play On? In a message dated 12/3/01 11:38:08 AM Central Standard Time, jbaird@fgi.net writes: Using the acetone/keytop solution (in this case to bring up the tone of the whole piano), he brushes a small amount on the crown, then slides the action back in and immediately pounds it in while shifting into both positions. He mutes the strings with his finger while pounding--maybe just to spare his ears, I don't know. The result is a very even and slightly brighter tone. In any case, there was no waiting before playing. John Baird Millikin University Decatur, Illinois John It would seem to me that the process of pounding is creating a brighter tone more that the lacquer. If you pound right away, I don't think the lacquer will have a chance to soak into fibers of the hammers. I also think by pounding the string hard right away, it will force the lacquer right back out of the hammer, and onto the strings. It would be like putting a brush in the lacquer and then right away hitting the side of the handle again the table. The lacquer would come right off the brush. Wim [Breakall, Raymond] I am new this to this forum but it is very i nteresting. I am the tech at the University of Richmond. What about the ready made hammer brightener from say Schaff? Is that as effective as the acetone/keytop solution. Ray Breakall ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/7b/10/3d/11/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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