[CAUT] lacquer

[David Love]

The other advantage of direct strikepoint application is that you don't
have to worry about the variation in creep.  If you apply from the
shoulders allowing the lacquer to creep toward the strikepoint, hoping
to stop at the point at which you will get even saturation up to and on
the strikepoint, there will likely be some variation and when you then
get variation in tone quality on certain notes it can be unclear whether
another entire saturation is necessary or just a few drops to get to
heretofore unsaturated strikepoint area.  By applying straight onto the
strike point, you reduce that variability.  I have recently taken to
direct strikepoint application and found more predictable and even
results.  

David Love
davidlovepianos@comcast.net 

-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of
Fred Sturm
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 6:43 PM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] lacquer

--On Sunday, December 5, 2004 2:56 AM -0500 Chris Solliday 
<solliday@ptd.net> wrote:

>  I absolutely defer to Eric S's teaching on the subject, but I think
you
> will find a different practice in C&A, and my current use of whatever
> chemical hardener is some directly on the strke point only, and let it
> fall over night to the core point, then voice with needles.

Hi Chris,
	Actually, I think you will find that C&A and Eric are saying
precisely the 
same thing. Eric is a part of C&A, works in the Steinway basement
alongside 
Ron Coners and the others when not assigned to teaching duties. And Ron
is 
saying exactly the same as Eric - both at the class he gave in Dallas,
and 
in private conversation, both in Dallas and in NYC. Ron _is_ saying that

his tendency at this point is to apply directly down at the strikepoint,

with the idea of allowing an egg-shaped zone of absorption which
by-passes 
(omits) the lower shoulders, on the theory that it really doesn't matter
if 
any material gets there. Ron's a very open, forthright guy, who says
what 
he has to say without beating around any bushes. Eric is teaching to
apply 
so that the entire hammer is saturated. So there's a wee difference
here, 
but not substantial. (We're talking first application. Second (and 
subsequent) might or might not penetrate to the core.)
	That's what I'm hearing, not only from Eric and Ron, but from
John Patton 
and Kent Webb and various others. Different from what I heard 20 odd
years 
ago, and 15 and I think as recently as 10. But it's a very consistent 
approach for the last several years (it's probably been a consistent 
approach on their part in C&A for much longer, but they weren't teaching
it 
in a consistent manner, at least to the general tech public).
Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico
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