<!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 6.00.2800.1458" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Orange hammers?!  Hey, in = Tennessee that would be vogue!  Thanks for the idea!  Go Big Orange!!!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joy!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Elwood</FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV>Elwood Doss, Jr., RPT<BR>Piano Technician/Technical = Director<BR>Department of Music<BR>145 Fine Arts Building<BR><EM><STRONG>University of Tennessee</STRONG></EM> at Martin<BR>Martin, TN  38238<BR>731-881-1852</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr 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=quentin.codevelle@tiscali.fr href="mailto:quentin.codevelle@tiscali.fr">Quentin Codevelle</A> = </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, May 15, 2005 1:42 = PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> voicing hammers</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello Joe, </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>thanks for your reply.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yes, I will share the receipe of the = yamaha hammer hardener:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>take 1 liter of aceton, and 4 = ping-pong balls (or 50cl with 2 balls, of course). Put it in a bottle of glass until the = balls are totally melted in the aceton. Then you just have to put some small quantities of hardener in small bottles with a pipette to carry = it in your toolbag.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I haven't tested the hardener myself, = but I heard the result when the yamaha tech "juiced" the CFIIIS hammers, after the = pianist had complained about the lack of brillance in the treble = area.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>BTW, don't forget to only use WHITE = TABLE TENNIS BALLS ;-) an orange ball would result an orange hammer, but hey, why = not ? ;-)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Concerning your second reply, to me = fine regulation pushes the piano to its limits to a certain = point, but when you have to deal with a pianist who wants very very bright sound = (like Horowitz wanted, for example), what can you do except hardening the = hammers before the concert?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It's been only 5 years that I am in = the profession, and this is the kind of questions I am asking to myself, = trying to find answers, if there are answers, though... ! ;-)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial = size=2>Quentin</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>