<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"> <TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1170" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=250430618-20082003><FONT face=Arial>I've made a batch of plastic keytop in acetone and am about to put it on the new bass hammers that I installed in a Baldwin 6000.  Even after filing and many hours of playing, these hammers sound like mooshy marshmallows floofing up against the strings. Questions: How much dope per hammer? Where should I put it on the hammers and where should I NOT put it? Any other dope dope appreciated. </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=250430618-20082003><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=250430618-20082003><FONT face=Arial>Side note: </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=250430618-20082003><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=250430618-20082003><FONT face=Arial>I did the Randy Potter course and have picked up much at PTG chapter meetings and from you wonderful people on the list, but mostly it's been on-the-job, on-my-own, and </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=250430618-20082003><FONT face=Arial>learn-from-your-mistakes for me over the last three years. But it sure seems that there is a not very short list of things that reeeeeally should be learned with tutelage--and this includes voicing. </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=250430618-20082003><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=250430618-20082003><FONT face=Arial>I think it just isn't sufficient to read about techniques; you have to hear examples and learn to listen to subtleties that just aren't present in 98.632% of the neglected pianos in rural America. Most customers can't really hear or appreciate the difference and won't be paying for it. So there is precious little practice opportunity.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=250430618-20082003><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=250430618-20082003><FONT face=Arial>THIS piano, however, demands attention and resides in the practice hall of some very professional musicians of the 399th Army Band. So I must venture!</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=250430618-20082003><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=250430618-20082003><FONT face=Arial>Next conference, I'm going to spend the bucks and get into every voicing workshop I can!</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=250430618-20082003><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=250430618-20082003><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alan R. Barnard</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Salem, MO</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML> <BR> <P><FONT SIZE=2>---<BR> Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.<BR> Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).<BR> Version: 6.0.512 / Virus Database: 309 - Release Date: 8/19/2003<BR> </FONT> </P>