At 10:45 PM 12/22/95 -0700, you wrote: > >Happy Holidays to All!! > I too have used pin driving fluid over the years and agree that it >makes pin driving much easier. The pins of course will not feel as tight >initially as they will after the fluid has finished setting up. Like Horace >I also have used Trefz pin driving fluid for years. Indeed I got my first >bottle in 1966 when I used to get it over tghe counter at Trefz in P >Philadephia before the fire. In more recent years I bought it directly from >Ed Trefz > I haven't seen him for a long time and I believe he is selling >the pin driving fluid through APSCO. I believe his phone number is 215- >237-1352. If someone tries the number, you can tell the rest of us if it is >correct and what he is now doing. Perhaps someone in the Philadelphia chapter >can fill us in about how Ed is doing. > As for the composition of the fluid, Horace, you may be right about >the shellac, but I was always under the impression that it is varnish with > rosin and I believe that is what Ed Trefz told me years ago when I asked him. >His only comment about the varnish was that it should be a natural varnish, >not a synthetic or have any sorts of additives to it. I presume that would >not using polyurethane, for instance. If anyone gets a kdefinitive ans > > > > > >answer, please let the rest of us know. >Ed Hilbert >Vermont Chapter >EHilbert@Middlebury.EDU > Ed, I strongly suspect that, like the varnish on the Strads, the real formula is either locked in Ed's head or lost in the ether. In any event, it's a good product. I suppose we could have it analyzed... Best, Horace Horace Greeley, RPT Piano Technician & Consultant The Colburn School of Performing Arts Los Angeles, CA ________ ________ 14 Pyxie Lane San Carlos, CA 94070-1506 415.592.6620
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