[CAUT] Steinway verdigris

Ron Nossaman rnossaman at cox.net
Sun Jan 9 11:08:32 MST 2011


On 1/9/2011 11:34 AM, Susan Kline wrote:

> 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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_silver
Ron N


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