<HTML>First of all,= I want to send a hearty thanks to Andre, Roger, Isaac, and David Love, amon= gst others, for giving me great advice with which to prepare a piano for voi= cing.   I've had a couple of good voicing experiences in recent weeks, but they = both were centered around instruments that were thought to be in need of maj= or repair/rebuild.  Both were resurrected from the dead by a couple hou= rs of hard needle work. Today's experience was different.  It was a great opportunity to ma= ke a really nice piano come somewhere closer to its potential.  I was h= ired to spend 8 hours easing keys, lubing various parts, doing some regulati= ng, tuning, and then voicing, which really amounted to trying to get rid of = some frontscale noise in the killer octave area. The first half of the day was spent doing the prep/regulation work. &nbs= p;The second half turned out to be more interesting.  AFter the initial= tuning, I went to work trying to get rid of the banshees.  As suggeste= d, I loosened the offending strings, one note at a time, moved the strings t= o the side, and sanded the bottom of the capo bar.  I massaged and lift= ed the strings, got them back in place and up to pitch.  What a differe= nce!  Most of the nasties were gone in each of the offending notes. I was ready to needle if smoothing the capo bar didn't work, but except = for a few single needle jabs on about three hammers, it wasn't at all necess= ary. And Andre, you were right:  they are Abel hammers, not Renner Blues= .  The Abels are certainly the softer of the two.   I really appreciate all of the advice given freely on this list.  I= t allowed me to go into this job with confidence.  Everything turned ou= t the way it was supposed to. Dave Stahl </HTML>