Grooves are indented in piano HAMMERS when the felt looses all it's suppleness, and becomes hard. the only thing to do, is to reshape them, and then the old powderly hammers will then wear out fairly quickly. I would never needle a hammer to shape it, needling (or voicing) is done to "even" out the hammers tone in relationship to it's neighbors.
It's way more involved that this video implies. I don't get it, why put something like this up? Wrong nomenclature, ..Pianotec is right, voicing with that needling tool would ruin the hammers more than help. WOW! Each hammer surface needs to be squared and strike all tri-chord strings and bi-chord strings at the exact same time. They need to be perfectly smooth, free of "fluff" and the strings need to be leveled and fit to the hammer or it will sound like crap. "Soften" would be a better term.
Restoring hammer shape is a mored difficult job that it looks (and it is not done with the kind of move shown, , as the voicing is not done with so long needles !)
Technical gesture learning and good tools are necessary for the piano technician. (one of the difficult part of the trade , the other implies training)
Anyway, old hammers are untense due to humidity and age of fiber, most of the time. When reshaping them the extereal tension lower even more and the result is so so.
@rlilly1000 i know? straight away he refers to something with the wrong terminology, a key is either the key on the keyboard or the key that locks the fallboard or lid
Grooves are indented in piano HAMMERS when the felt looses all it's suppleness, and becomes hard. the only thing to do, is to reshape them, and then the old powderly hammers will then wear out fairly quickly. I would never needle a hammer to shape it, needling (or voicing) is done to "even" out the hammers tone in relationship to it's neighbors.
tempolarolls 2 weeks ago
You lost all credibility at calling the piano HAMMER a piano KEY.
Lenochka1107 4 months ago
This guy has no clue, as most "experts" on expertvillage.
"From Dummies, for Dummies"
schlaget 1 year ago
@schlaget Well if your such a bloody expert why did you look up these tutorials on expertvillage?
I swear, half the people who watch these are the most cynical people i've ever known :P
Enigma4072 9 months ago
It's way more involved that this video implies. I don't get it, why put something like this up? Wrong nomenclature, ..Pianotec is right, voicing with that needling tool would ruin the hammers more than help. WOW! Each hammer surface needs to be squared and strike all tri-chord strings and bi-chord strings at the exact same time. They need to be perfectly smooth, free of "fluff" and the strings need to be leveled and fit to the hammer or it will sound like crap. "Soften" would be a better term.
LunatechStudio 1 year ago
it's a hammer, not a key! The keys are the black and white bits that you strike with your fingers when playing.
blip789 1 year ago
Restoring hammer shape is a mored difficult job that it looks (and it is not done with the kind of move shown, , as the voicing is not done with so long needles !)
Technical gesture learning and good tools are necessary for the piano technician. (one of the difficult part of the trade , the other implies training)
Anyway, old hammers are untense due to humidity and age of fiber, most of the time. When reshaping them the extereal tension lower even more and the result is so so.
Pianotec 1 year ago 2
Why do you keep referring to the hammers as "keys". Do you really know anything about a piano?
rlilly1000 2 years ago 6
@rlilly1000 I agree, and secondly, he didn't really talk about how to voice a hammer.
natureboy84 1 year ago
@rlilly1000 i know? straight away he refers to something with the wrong terminology, a key is either the key on the keyboard or the key that locks the fallboard or lid
MegaPianogenius 3 months ago
I loved it the way you speak
I'd love you to come over my house and
have some private...you're hot daddie!
Icybearg450 2 years ago
Excellent!
Hobbitgoth 3 years ago