<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>  Hi Wendy</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>     The harder the = hammer the harder you squeeze!  I consider this desperation voicing and not = fine adjustment but in some cases some improvement is better than none.  = Start squeezing at about 10 and 2 o'clock. Test one or two notes till you get = some kind of desired result then go for it.  Hard hammers are also hard = to kill(kind of like Bruce Willis></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>      = Best</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dale Erwin</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A href="mailto:wparham@ozarkisp.net" = title=wparham@ozarkisp.net>wparham</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>To:</B> <A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" title=pianotech@ptg.org>pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, June 08, 2001 8:38 PM</DIV> <DIV><B>Subject:</B> visegrip "voicing"</DIV></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Does anybody know about the technique to use = visegrips to voice an extremely hard hammer?  Thanks, = Wendy</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>