This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I did the same, on a 30-year-old C3 at a college, used daily as a = teaching and performance piano, and apparently having received little = maintenance during that time. It pinged painfully throughout, = especially octaves 5 & 6. In a performance with a string quartet, it = sounded like a banjo. Reshaping removed about two layers of felt along with the string = grooves, but made little difference in tone. A few drops of vodka at = the strike points, and suddenly it was a piano again, with a full range = of partials at softer-than-forte play. I was taught that the hammers should be allowed to dry before playing = (to avoid packing the felt back down). Is this how you do it, Susan? --Cy-- ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Susan Kline=20 To: College and University Technicians=20 Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 11:30 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] Alcohol/water on Yamaha hammers After filing the hammers to a better shape, I used alcohol on the=20 strike points in the sections which were harsher than I could=20 tolerate. When I say I used alcohol (with water, to 100 proof) I mean=20 that I used a few drops per hammer directly into the string grooves=20 in the tenor, tapering to one small drop on each hammer in the top=20 octave.=20 <snip> ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/26/49/cd/74/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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