[CAUT] Self voicing hammers/work hardening

[Leslie Bartlett]

There are the plastic pipettes with tiny nozzles, and I have seen plastic
squeeze bottles like the ones sold by Schaff, except these have openings
measured, and they are only a few thousandths of an inch. Thus one can
control the size of drops quite easily.

-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]On Behalf Of
Susan Kline
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 11:47 AM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Self voicing hammers/work hardening


At 08:28 AM 5/24/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>Thanks, Susan, I'm always happy to be adding to the arsenal.
>
>Here's how I use keytop/acetone:  Take a metal tuning mute handle.  Dip it
>in the mixture, come out with a small (and it's small!) drop, put it in
>the offending string groove(s).  I feel like this is the ultimate
>control--much less is applied than with an eye dropper and it's better
>than a syringe, because you can actually see how much is being
>used.  Because it's so fast, it's one of those tools that is always with
>me on stage......
>
>Later!
>
>Barbara Richmond

Arsenal enhancement -- ditto. That IS a small amount! I wonder what would
happen if one did that with shellac? One might end up with a really subtle
result. I find that old dropper bottles which used to hold herbal tinctures
(well-washed, of course) do a good job of holding shellac -- for awhile.
One shouldn't keep it indefinitely, anyway. Eventually the rubber gets soft
and stuck, but I haven't known one to leak. I still put it in a ziploc bag,
like I use around the alcohol squeeze bottle.

Susan

_______________________________________________
caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives