<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2716.2200" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>David, if you are really working on a = G2, it's a lot more than two years old. Did you mean a C2? </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    If the piano has = really been getting that kind of use, are the hammers starting to get a little flat = up near the capo bar?  Steaming is fine, but if the hammers are through and = through hard, you'll get better results from and little deep needling down on = the shoulders and sides of the hammer. Don't mean to butt in here, though. </FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=ilvey@sbcglobal.net = href="mailto:ilvey@sbcglobal.net">David Ilvedson</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 22, 2002 = 11:37 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Singing = Samick</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=3> <P align=left>Roger,</P> <P align=left>You had an article on steaming in a recent Journal, right?  I'm considering trying it on a 1  year old Yamaha = G2 that has already begun breaking strings in the treble....hotel lounge = with big bands and probably no monitor for the piano...</P> <P align=left>David I.</P> <P align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </P></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>=