[CAUT] lacquer

[Chris Solliday]

Good "point" David and I think it is the solids within that we are trying to
build up  under the strike point that gives us the bang and other qualities
associated with SSNY. There is no need for anything anywhere else in the
hammer. Voicing with needles or adding keytop and acetone (if one has used
acetone as a thinner with the lacquer to begin with) can get us where we
need to be on stage quickly and easily. Happy accu-puncturing, Chris
Solliday
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Love" <davidlovepianos@comcast.net>
To: "'College and University Technicians'" <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 10:46 PM
Subject: RE: [CAUT] lacquer


> 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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