Voicing down hammers

[Erwinspiano at aol.com]

Hi Guys
  I am going to try Water & alcohol on a brand new set of Renner  blues that 
are just to Blasted hard tomorrow.  I'll try straight  alcohol first & then 
work my way up.
    My friend, Starr Taylor, in Florida just reported  that he used 50% 
alcohol & water on some "Rock hard felt" brand hammers in  some school Yamaha 
P-22's with very good success. Mr. Taylor reports having  to apply several 
applications to get the solution to penetrate down to the  core.  The results were 
tonally satisfying & cheaper than new  hammers. Heaven forbid.
  Dale

Mr.  Bondi,
Ditto to Jon's suggestion.
I treated  a gray market G2 yesterday that was the loudest, clangiest
Yamaha I've  heard in a long time.
I squeezed the shoulders with a small  6" vice grip and even resorted
to lateral needling at 11:00 and 1:00  o'clock to bring these bricks down.
The thing doesn't sound great, but it  is at least playable 
Tom --Big Papi  --Driscoll


 



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