Steinway brass logo

Richard Brekne Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
Tue Apr 10 15:51 MDT 2001


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Tear it off and clean up the finish. Sheesshh have they really gone away from
inlay ?? Things just aint what they used to be.

Fred Sturm wrote:

> We just got a brand new Steinway D a couple weeks ago, and it has the
> now-standard logo and large "Steinway & Sons" in brass on the side
> toward the audience. The logo has started to curl away from the finish.
> Examining it, it appears to be brass foil with a gummy back, simply
> pressed onto the finished surface (in contrast to the letters, and the
> logo and letters on the fall, which seem to have had finish applied
> after they were placed, so that the finish more or less fills in around
> the edges, helping to hold them in place).
>         First question: Am I right about what I am dealing with (ie,
> gummy-backed foil, applied to finished surface)?
>         Second question: Is there any way such a logo is going to stay on more
> than a month or so in an active university environment? Is there
> something I can do to make it stick permanently? Or should I just tear
> the darned thing off, wool wax (or sand with 400/600 if need be) where
> it was and forget it?
>
> Fred Sturm
> University of New Mexico

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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway
mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no


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