I would certainly defer to your opinion on this particular soundboard style, as I don't have experience with it. I did want to point out this alternative approach, though, for lacquering hammers, in addition to shoulders or soak from the top. Adding lacquer at the core can be done very subtly and gradually. Apply right at the tip of the core, and let it soak an area more or less circular around that point, which can be controlled pretty precisely with a small enough hypo needle. If it wasn't enough, another application can build a layer that creates a larger circle. Needling with one long needle can back it off. There is no addition of brittle attack zing in the softer parts of the range, as with surface application, and there is a faster build of power compared to shoulder application. It's another option that is out there, an easy and cheap experiment short of hammer replacement. Fred On Jun 24, 2010, at 3:52 PM, David Love wrote: > As a comparison I would say not on these bellies. A strong > application to > the lower shoulders will produce something different than an attempt > to wick > the same solution to within 2 mm of the crown. That strong solution > which > will reinforce the lower shoulder will not produce the same result > beneath > the strike point. Under the strike point it will be too harsh > sounding. I > don't know this particular piano but having seen many of Del's > iterations > and designs I would say that you must be cautious with lacquer > solutions. > The bellies are light and tend to respond very adequately with softer > hammers. The idea that a D belly would even be close to something > acceptable with an unreinforced Ronsen Bacon hammer should be a clue > as to > the responsiveness. If you want to wick something under the crown > then a > much lighter solution is in order than the one which will be used to > reinforce the lower shoulders. At least that's been my experience. > > David Love > www.davidlovepianos.com Regards, Fred Sturm fssturm at unm.edu “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.” Brecht -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100624/d3e60ae1/attachment.htm>
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