<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0">In a message dated 12/10/2002 10:38:13 PM Pacific Standard Time, tune4u@earthlink.net writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Subj: <B>Non-smelly Hammer Juice </B><BR>
Date: 12/10/2002 10:38:13 PM Pacific Standard Time<BR>
From: <A HREF="mailto:tune4u@earthlink.net">tune4u@earthlink.net</A><BR>
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To: <A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A><BR>
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Any thing that goes into a hammer that is liquid and then hardens has to have a stinky solvent.<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I've got some new bass hammers in a Baldwin 6000 that sound like marshmallows gently wafting against bedsprings--no power at all.<BR>
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Where the piano is, I can't put anything on them that will be too stinky or hazardous to breathe. How can I harden these babies without traditional lacquer?<BR>
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Alan Barnard<BR>
Salem, <BR>
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