[CAUT] Thumbtacks in hammers!

[Victor Belanger]

Hi everyone,

Thank you Michelle for the suggestion and the kind note:).
I wish it would be easy but the score is quite demanding and it does 
go all over the place.

I would like to thank everyone that suggested different ways to go 
around this. Unfortunately this a hard one to educate people on it, 
as it is in the score by a fairly reputable composer. There is not 
much I can do about that.

The suggestion that Daniel Gurnee  gave for staples is interesting 
and I think I might give it a try. If it avoids of me putting 
anything pointy in the hammers as to ruin them, I am game.

Thanks  again, and I will keep you posted.

Best.

Victor Belanger
MIT


>Hey folks- how about this?
>
>For those needing a piano with tacks in it- why not just pop off the 
>good hammers on your pianos for those particular notes, and put on 
>some crappy ones you got laying around and put the tacks in those??
>
>Just a thought.
>
>I now it's extra work- but maybe it's better than a raising some 
>Lazarus hammers.
>
>
>:)
>Michelle
>
>stranges@oswego.edu

At 11:27 AM -0700 10/8/04, David Ilvedson wrote:
>----- Original message ---------------------------------------->
>From: Daniel Gurnee <dgurnee@humboldt1.com>
>To: College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>
>Received: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 08:35:46 -0700
>Subject: Re: [CAUT] Thumbtacks in hammers!
>
>>Humboldt State University has performed works requiring a Cimbalom type
>>sound which I provided not with tacks but staples.  A light sound can be
>>obtained using paper straples and a heavies sound with shop staples.  The
>>staples are placed at the crown of the hammer crosswise and clamped to the
>>sides.  The impact on playing keeps the staple in place and does no damage
>>to the hammer.
>
>  >Daniel Gurnee, RPT retired from HSU