---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi Jeff, I would fight the Alcohol/water treatment tooth and nail. It will distort the shoulders of the hammers and it will be hard to find a decent voice on the instrument afterwards.. Having said that. The new CF111 hammers are a huge improvement on the older ones. Let him go ahead and put a new set of hammers and shanks on afterwards. Add the Crescendo B/R and F/R Werzen felt punching's and it will really upgrade that CF. I have done 2 CF's in the last 6 months and the clients are delighted with the results. Regards Roger At 08:01 PM 1/6/2006, you wrote: >List, > >Thank you for your responses so far. The CFIII is from 1994, so as >some of you have indicated it might be a candidate for that treatment. >However, I don't trust the other tech to know what he is doing >enough to do it right. This all comes at a time when I have been >pushing for a 1/2 time staff position (currently a $12,000/year >contract - no surprise the Yamaha isn't maintained the way it should >be - plus it competes with a Steinway D on stage and gets less >use). We are also scheduled for a Steinway Inventory Evaluation in >a couple weeks. To add to the complication, the adjunct went to the >Dean - over the head of the chair of the department - and the >adjunct's dad bought/donated the piano to the U. OK, so there you >have the tip of the politics. It goes on, but you get the >gist. It's starting to feel like a no-win, but at least the >majority opinion seems to be that alcohol/water is not the approach of choice. > >Any more input would certainly be helpful - I love this list for the >opportunity to "think through" a situation like this. Thanks. > >Jeff Stickney >UM > >Jeff Stickney wrote: >>List: >> >>I have a Yamaha CFIII here at UM. Because of a political situation >>too complex to describe, an adjunct piano faculty here wants to >>bring in his "personal technician" to voice and regulate the >>piano. He wants to use an alcohol/water solution on the hammers to >>voice. The last piano he did this on (a Kawai KG-2D) was turned to >>mush, and I am concerned that is what would happen to our 9' >>Yamaha. Do any of you have experience using this solution on >>Yamaha hammers, and have they been good or bad? Of course, I'm not >>happy about them bringing in this other "tech", but it may be >>unavoidable due to the politics. >>Thanks for any input. >> >>Jeff Stickney >>University of Montana >>_______________________________________________ >>caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >_______________________________________________ >caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/df/20/af/03/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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