[CAUT] lacquer

[Alan McCoy]

Hey Fred,

This was the approach for applying lacquer when I took the tone class in
1992. Soak from the strike point and watch it soak in down to the tip of the
core and out to 9 and 3 oclock. Soaking lower in the shoulder is pointless.
First application is a complete soaking on the strike point with a stiff
(maybe 3:1) lacquer thinner/lacquer solution. Dry overnight and light filing
to remove the crust. 2nd app a 6:1 solution soaking in as before (only it
probably won't penetrate as far). Dry and file. Listen and repeat soaking
and\or needle out the zingers. Deep crown needling is OK (in fact necessary)
with these hammers while low shoulder needling is pointless. Really. This
technique works well for these hammers. Stable and colorful.

 
-- Alan McCoy, RPT
Piano Technician

Eastern Washington University
119 Music Bldg
Cheney, WA 99004

(509) 359-4627
amccoy@mail.ewu.edu


> From: Fred Sturm <fssturm@unm.edu>
> Reply-To: "College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>" <caut@ptg.org>
> Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 19:43:01 -0700
> To: "College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>" <caut@ptg.org>
> 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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