On 1/7/2011 4:38 PM, Douglas Wood wrote: > I don't want to imply that I don't service Steinways that have > verdigris-era parts in them. Quite the contrary. In fact, I just > installed a set of new hammers with shanks and flanges in an S from > 1936 over the old wippens. There's enough friction in the wippen > flanges to be noticeable, but the budget would not allow new wips. So > the owner understands that the result is limited by the old parts. > He's delighted in the result, but partly because he does not expect > new-piano performance from the action. Just very nice old-piano. I > like to be clear on whose problem it is, that's all, and what's > reasonable to expect. > > Then, too, the amount of excess friction in the "verdigris-ed" centers > varies considerably from era to era and from piano to piano. Some > wippen flange centers are remarkably functional, others hardly work at > all even with lubrication. It seems clear to me that the environment > plays an important role here in accelerating or delaying the chemistry. > > As always, a judgement call. But not really something to apologize for. Yes, absolutely. This problem is completely not of our making. We cope with it in whatever way best seems to fit the situation. Susan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110107/69e97086/attachment.htm>
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