On 1/9/2011 8:11 AM, DCyr141833 at aol.com wrote: > I come across a lot of Steinways with verdigris - and find that those > that get played regularly don't seem to be as affected by it as those > that sit unplayed for long periods of time. Do any of you find it in > your college or university pianos? My guess would be that university pianos probably either get replacement parts or get moved on, most of the time. On the other hand, when I was there in the 1960's Oberlin had a ton of M's in the practice which were all of the right era. I wonder if any are still there and whether any of those still have original parts. They got a lot of use. I have another question, though. The most recent batch of center pins I got from Schaff were solid nickel instead of brass. I don't like them, because they are hard to cut off. However, I did start wondering if anyone had repinned a verdigris-prone Steinway action with them .... since they have no copper to make the verdigris, if one reamed pretty well and then used nickel instead of brass, would the old parts keep working? Has anybody tried? <thanks in advance> Susan Kline -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110109/0c7d1d93/attachment.htm>
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