Wayne writes: << I just treated the strike point with steam, maybe I should try the shoulders also. Wayne >> Greetings, Maybe you should start with the shoulders. Steam releases fibers, which if overdone on the crown will often ruin the hammer. If you turn the shoulders into marshmallows, you can often get a needle into the compression zone under the strike point and actually create some resilience. Steaming the strike point can leave you with a layers of totally dead felt over a rock. I have had good luck with steaming the shoulders first, then seeing what the needles found deeper in the hammer. If there is no resilience created by relaxing some of the compression, there will be very poor tone and a very short time before the hammers sounds harsh, again. Regards, Ed Foote RPT http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> See what's free at http://www.aol.com.</HTML>
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