<html> <body> 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: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">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: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">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: <a href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives" eudora="autourl"> https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives</a> </blockquote>_______________________________________________ caut list info: <a href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives" eudora="autourl"> https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives</a> </blockquote></body> </html>