I wonder why not a heavy plastic. Greg Newell Greg's Piano Forté www.gregspianoforte.com 216-226-3791 (office) 216-470-8634 (mobile) From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of David Love Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 10:51 PM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] Steinway verdigris Maybe it' time for anodized aluminum center pins. Anyway, the question still stands, if you repinned with a non reactive material could you solve the problem without changing parts and what would that material likely be? David Love www.davidlovepianos.com _____ From: Susan Kline <skline at peak.org> Sender: caut-bounces at ptg.org Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:21:48 -0800 To: <caut at ptg.org> ReplyTo: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] Steinway verdigris On 1/9/2011 3:02 PM, David Love wrote: But are they 60% copper at the point of contact? I assumed that the center pins are solid nickel silver and not plated -- but these days, I'm learning not to depend too much on the accuracy of my assumptions. Susan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110110/04253ecb/attachment-0001.htm>
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