Cut a hammer shank in half. On one end glue a thick (about 2 mm) piece of firm felt, then a piece of buckskin. Chuck it up in your combination handle and you have a pounder. You can use it to hit the keys very firmly without wearing out your finger. Be careful because you can definitely hit the keys too hard with this thing. First I would try some Protek on the string bearing points of the front scale. Make sure there are no HVAC vents in close proximity to the piano. Push the DampChaser system. You do have their brochures to pass out, right? If you can get unisons to hold for a month or two in a church you are doing good- especially full gospel or Missionary Baptist. But they should hold after you're done playing your test pieces. Dean Dean W May (812) 235-5272 PianoRebuilders.com (888) DEAN-MAY Terre Haute IN 47802 -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of toddpianoworks at att.net Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 6:36 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] Yamahas Gray Market? Hi all, I have a client situation (church) with their grand piano not holding it's tune. It's a G3. I have tuned it twice in the past several months. After the second time, she said within a week unisons started going out. After I finished tuning it, and sit down to play pieces, I was able to knock some unisons out fairly easily. I went back and cleaned up the unisons. I did this three or four times. I have heard about a gray market with Yamaha. Could this be it? Thoughts anyone? Matthew Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
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