Certainly, I should have mentioned that point. If the needles go in easily then move up, but I suspect a U3 hasn't had a lot of shoulder work at the factory? Not sure on that, but the ones I see have firm felt. David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Richard Brekne" <ricb at pianostemmer.no> To: pianotech at ptg.org Received: 5/5/2008 1:57:36 AM Subject: Voicing Help >An excellent observation. >That said... assuming the shoulders are alreadly needled out and there >is nothing more to accomplish from further needling... hammers do get >packed beyond the point where voicing can do more then simply quite them >down. >If you feel no resistance to a deep 8 mm three needle tool from the >lower shoulder up to say 2-3 mm away from the crown area.. then your >hammers are simply used up. >Otherwise... do as mentioned below, finish with nice hammer mating and >single string voicing. >Cheers >RicB > Not that I'm pushing Yamaha hammers, but many higher compression > hammers ( Yamaha, Renner...etc....NOT NORDISKA et al/AKA rock...) > work fabulously with lower shoulder needling. They need it and the > "bloom...projection" will happen. These are "HIGH" quality > hammers, not to be scoffed at, but worked with. For me a week with > Yamaha installing new C7 hammers in a CFIII was an eye opener. The > projection/tone above the strings that happened with opening up the > shoulders with new hammers, may well be common knowledge to > many...but it wasn't to me. Projection had never really > connected. "Tone above the strings" as my Yamaha teacher > said...DID...what Julia needs to do is straight-forward voicing. > NOT at strike-point exclusively and certainly not with steam...IMHO > David Ilvedson, RPT > Pacifica, CA 94044
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