Linen

[Barbara Richmond]

Aw, blush.

I had a nice conversation with my trusted rebuilder today, he described them
to me, they're Steinway hammers.  Shows you how much I paid attention to
what was going on........not the first time I've been embarrassed, hey?  :-)
I know, I know, how could I not know what hammers are on my own piano??!!
Well, there *must* have been some conversation at the time about
Renners.........

So the moral of this story is a certain amount of work hardening on Steinway
hammers is steamable--depending on how they are hardened, I suppose.  At
least it's true in this case--'cause I've done it.  A *bit* of steam also
worked well on the crown when I used it on the Steinway D in the concert
hall at the university where I worked, back in '94 or '95 (when steaming was
new on the scene).  What I'm talking about in this case is taking away some
that excessive brightness that develops that is taken care of at the crown.

That's my experience, anyway.


Barbara Richmond, RPT
blushing somewhere near Peoria, IL


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Ballard" <yardbird@vermontel.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: Linen


> At 7:24 AM -0600 2/18/04, Barbara Richmond wrote:
> >Actually, I think they may be Renners.  I'm working today and won't have
> >time to look or call, but maybe tomorrow.
>
> Summer of '92, they would have been Renner Blues (Renner USA). Yep,
> they're steamable.
>
> Bill Ballard RPT
> NH Chapter, P.T.G.
>
> "Can you check out this middle C?. It "whangs' - (or twangs?)
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