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[Ron Nossaman]

>One more thing on voicing. The tech uses deep needling directly AT THE STIKE 
>POINT! But he tells me that this is the Steinway method. I'll tell ya, this 
>would have normally been, for me, a Slam-Dunk dead give away for the current 
>problem. I have always thought that deep/excessive needling at the strike 
>point would DESTROY hammer firmness,(maybe not immediately, but soon) and 
>leave them totally useless for loud playing.


So where *can* you needle a hammer that was repeatedly soaked in lacquer to
"build the tone", if not the strike point, to have any effect? Also, I hope
you aren't saying that the tech needled the strike point to try to bring UP
the sound?????????? 

I think I'm confused, but I'm not sure.

Ron N