[CAUT] Steinway hammers with pre-voicing solution

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<< Anyway, I did not pursue the matter with Steinway. Has anyone here  
done so? The "pre-voicing" seems to me to be a fairly heavy  
lacquering. Can lacquer-free hammers be had at all from Steinway? >>

The last two sets of their hammers were soft, soft, soft.  I don't think they 
had any hardner in them.  I had to juice them heavily to make the piano 
speak.  
      I differ with the current Steinway method,.  I squirt it on from the 
low shoulder and let it wick upwards, rather than soaking them from the contact 
point downward.  



Ed Foote RPT 
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