David, that is how I've been doing "drastic" voicing for some time now. But I use a soldering iron with the brass hammer iron replacing the soldering tip. It keeps the iron hot enough for non-stop voicing. Can do basic pass of voicing in two minutes or so. Terry Farrell > Or wet a cotton handkerchief or piece of old T-shirt and wring it out so > it's damp but not sopping. Heat up a hammer iron and when it's hot (if you > touch it to the damp cloth, it should go "Tssst!"), lay the damp cloth, > folded in half, across the crowns of half a dozen hammers, then iron them, > passing the iron back and forth over the crown maybe twice or thrice -- move > quickly so you can do 4 or 5 hammers before the iron cools down too much. > Using a different area of the damp cloth, move up to the next few hammers, > re-heat the iron, and do them. The time-consuming part is continually > re-heating the iron. Maybe they make electric ones that stay hot. > --David Nereson, RPT > > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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