Now is that the piano tech's life or what? AND every 10 years or so his are replaced with brand new to play with... David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "McCoy, Alan" <amccoy at ewu.edu> To: caut at ptg.org Received: 3/17/2010 5:51:00 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] Piano Cuniform >On these Hamburgs there is no finish on the upstop rails. The interesting thing is >that his experience is limited to about 95% Hamburg S&S and 5% NY S&S. >Too bad too because he has missed out on our good ole Aeolean Ivers & Pond >spinets among others. >Alan >________________________________ >From: Jon Page <jonpage at comcast.net> >Reply-To: CAUTlist <caut at ptg.org> >Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:10:56 -0700 >To: CAUTlist <caut at ptg.org> >Subject: Re: [CAUT] Piano Cuniform >One of the first things Ulrich did after pulling the action and placing it atop another >piano (covered) was to take off the keystop rail, and sand the top of it. He said >something about liking everything to look clean. At that moment it seemed extreme >Sanding is a little extreme. 4/0 steel wool cleans of the dirt and preps the surface for >scribing with chalk and it leaves the finish intact. >-- >Regards, >Jon Page
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