Hi John, No connection to my concoction> <G> Joe Goss RPT Mother Goose Tools imatunr at srvinet.com www.mothergoosetools.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Delacour" <JD at Pianomaker.co.uk> To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007 5:09 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] center pinning changes > At 16:14 -0600 9/9/07, Joe And Penny Goss wrote: > > ><G> > >An hour after a bath there is enough lanolin behind the ear to use as a > >lube. > >This is what my flute players to use to lube their flute joints. > > In the case of the old Rudall Carte wooden flutes, one of which I > have, was a little round cocus-wood box that my old tutor, who would > now be 130 years old!, said was supposed to contain goose grease to > lubricate the cork joints. Any connexion with Goose Juice? :-) > > A little more on the graphite question: > > I noticed as I just as I was finishing re-centring the Kirkman a > small black circle at the birds-eye on one side of the butt. It > occurred to me that perhaps they twirled a blacklead pencil in the > boring before pushing in the pin. I have another set from a scrapped > Kirkman of about the same age and will have a look to see if it is > the same. This is an idea that never occurred to me but which seems > a good one. It would ease the pin through the wood without polluting > the bushing with blacklead as Renner's and Detoa's rotten method > does. I find a 4B pencil the most useful for general blackleading > but for this purpose I might experiment with a 6B or even softer. > > JD > >
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