New hammers on a Steinway M

[Erwinspiano at aol.com]

Hi Alex
  There are many purported Steinway Experts everywhere but what you  need is 
a voicing expert & someone expereinced with working with the  Steinway Style  
of voicing.  I currently find the Factory hammers very  workable with 
exception but as in Flying accidents, 99% of the time it's pilot  error.  The same is 
true in the siuation you describe.  
    When voiced correctly by filing the hammers to the  Steinway recommended 
shape,ironing  & then applying appropriate  mixtures lacquer hardening 
solutions the sound can be quite glorious.  All  this is contigent on the sound board 
health , downbearing & strings being in  good working order.
  Dale Erwin

I visited a customer that called for a tuning of a Steinway Model  M from the 
70's. While tuning I realize the sound was so pronouncedly muffled  that I 
mentioned to  her the need to voice it. 
To my surprise she mentioned the hammers had been replaced a year  or two ago 
by an allegedly Steinway certified technician. She was  formerly so 
dissatisfied with the sound of the piano afterwords that she never  called him back. 
I wonder what would be recommended in this case to make the hammers a bit  
harder to recover the more normal brilliance of the Steinway sound. 
Alex Gluzmann, Buenos Aires.


 
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