At 02:16 AM 8/14/98 -0600, Roger wrote: >Hi Susan, > Nice to hear from you, love you articals, great job. Thanks for >reminding me that I use the iron reversed. Funny how the mind goes blank at >the keyboard. Have you tried light touch up voicing with your iron? I'd >like some feed back from the far west. >Regards Roger. Thanks, Roger. It really helps me to keep going when people say they like the column. I have used the iron for brightening the tone on the SD-10. The humidity was high on the coast, too, so I think drying out (temporary) as well as a small amount of surface compression helped. Not a huge effect, but a pleasing sound. It also made the hammers look very neat and smooth after filing. Thanks for suggesting that I buy the iron. I also used Pianotek's rheostat, which kept me from scorching the hammers when I got over-excited. I haven't used it yet for touch-up steaming at the strike point. I'll let you know how that worked for me when I come across a piano which needs it. I have done a little bit the same thing by applying a few drops of vodka right on the strike point, tapering down to just one on the left side in the high treble. (Left side to provide a softer tone when using the shift pedal.) Does anyone else soften the strike point more on the left side to help the shift effect? If not, can you tell me about any drawbacks of doing it? I've started calling vodka "cold steam in a bottle." I've used the little plastic hypo-oiler to control how much I put on. Susan P.S. I did have one bad moment of inattention when I tried to guide the iron, held in my right hand, by taking hold of it with my left _in front of_ the handle. One more thing I don't intend to do again. Immediate and frequent contact with lots of ice in a ziploc bag is recommended ... then aloe vera on a bandaid. Stopped hurting in a few hours. Susan Kline P.O. Box 1651 Philomath, OR 97370 skline@proaxis.com
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