lacquering hammers

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If you lacquer those Kawai hammers, you ruin them for ever. Those are 
not American made hammers but come from Hamamatsu Japan.
It is the same with Yamaha hammers.

If that customer wants a brighter sound, you achieve this with 
anti-friction treatment to start with, followed by a power regulation.
Anti-friction takes care of 'stiff joints' and causes a much more 
dynamic, a power regulation is the finale.
If you do this right, you will have done a good job without 
unnecessarily damaging hammers.

The hammer are the crown jewels of the instrument.
You know what I'm saying?

friendly greetings
from
André Oorebeek

Amsterdam -
The Netherlands

www.concertpianoservice.nl
www.grandpiano.nl

"where music is, no harm can be"



On 14-aug-04, at 19:45, ilex cameron ross wrote:

> greetings!
>
> YES those who are easily exasperrated by newbies can skip this if 
> necessary.
> but up until now i've successfully avoided lacquering hammers and 
> managed to
> brighten everything via fine-filing and ironing hammers. a good chunk 
> of my
> experience and schooling has been on asian pianos that rarely if ever 
> needed
> brightening anyway. however, i have a customer who just bought a kawai 
> ge-20
> and wants it to sound like a pearl river - ?!???!? so, i'm heading 
> into the
> realm of lacquering hammers. what are some tips and things to avoid? 
> what
> brands/types do you recommend for lacquer/thinner? btw, this is a
> last-minute service request, so i need to be able to get my supplies
> locally, at a hardware store or wherever.
>
> sorry if this is a repeat question and i'm showing my newbie hide 
> here; i
> really have tried searching the ptg website for any archives or 
> articles and
> it's not so friendly in that sense. or i'm an idiot - completely 
> possible!
> thanks in advance for the help!
>
> -ilex
>
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