<HTML>Susan writes (Greetings, Susan): <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I sometimes voice with shellac now (ultrablonde, pretty dilute), and it leaves just a little color. I wonder if that would make it easier to tell where it was going, when putting it in from the side? ... I wonder  if anyone else has used it for initial juicing? </BLOCKQUOTE> Yes, Steinway used it for about fifty years. I don't have anything against it except the slow dry time of the alcohols, which isn't a problem on shallow juicing, but there are situations where the heavier modern NY Steinway hammer needs the additional stiffness of a very deep shot or even two, like in a large dead hall where the artist wants a very aggressive sound at the high end of the dynamic range. Yes, there are other ways to design a piano, but that particular implementation requires juice, maybe multiple applications, and that is also why I don't care for the blocking effect of keytop plastic. The color might help a little, but I don't think so. You can see the wet spot from clear stuff on the side, but that still doesn't help tell how deep and what direction it's traveling. If you feed just a little fast, you get a big wet spot that doesn't allow you to tell anything else. Bob Davis</HTML>