Thank you William, since I am fairly new on the internet and not = totally familiar with the rules, I make mistakes. Please correct me = over and over, I'll learn! Now regarding your puzzlement: Of the below text the only line I am responsible for is : On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, oorebeek wrote: "Try spraying McLube on the bridge it mostly helps" For those who are not familiar with McLube, It is a spray can with : McLube Release Coating and Dry Lubricant 205 PS. I got the tip about this Lubricant from one of your PTG-members a = long time ago during one of my travels through the US. McLube is very slippery and lasts a long time. It is excellent for : = sliding of key frames, key pins, whippen bridges, repetition springs, = damper threads. It is especially dramatic in use on bridges! It changes key down = weight by at least 2-3 grams and is dangerous for dynamics at the = same time, so one must consider extra brilliance in advance! If you do the springs as well, you loose another gram or two, if = you're still too heavy do the keyboard pins. By now you will have = lost 5-7 (or more) grams. You're still "overweight"? take CLP for the center pins. Now you will slowly float away. Take your voicing tools along! I hope this clears up questions and remarks.. >Subject: Re: Knuckles >Sent: 11/8/96 6:44 PM >Received: 11/9/96 10:46 AM >From: William Bailer, Wbailer@concentric.net >Reply-To: pianotech@byu.edu, pianotech@byu.edu >To: pianotech@byu.edu, pianotech@byu.edu > >On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, oorebeek wrote: > >>Try spraying McLube on the bridge it mostly helps >> >>>I have a customer with 25 yr old 'M'. The knuckles are dense >>>and make noise when the jack returns. >>>Question: Can they be softened? >>>Either by; ever so slightly stretching the buckskin with a small needle >>>between that and the felt. Or using a small drill in the felt to relieve >>>some of the density? ? >>>Of course replacment would be best, but if it came to that; I'd >>>recommend new s/f. This has the beloved teflon 'perma-click' action. >>>I 'm trying to figure an easy way out for my customer. >>>Thanks, >> >>Andr=E9 Oorebeek > >Andri, > >First, just a comment on message format. You quote another technician >but chopped off his name. When you then place your new message at the >top, the whole thing becomes a confused mess. I realise that there are >people here who defend that practice, but it is bad manners here on the >net, and turns strings into mish-mash. > >Sorry for my "severity" about the message format issue, but I believe we >need to conform to conventions that are "time-proven." > >Now for your comment, which I will quote again here (in chronological >order!): > >>Try spraying McLube on the bridge it mostly helps > >I'm confused! I really don't know what you mean. Maybe you could >paraphrase it for me? Honest, I don't have a clue! > >Bill Bailer > >\\\ William Bailer wbailer@cris.com >\\\ Rochester, NY, USA phone: 716-473-9556 >\\\ Interests: acoustics, JSBach, anthropology, piano technology > > > friendly greetings from: Andr=E9 Oorebeek CONCERT PIANO SERVICE Amsterdam, the Netherlands email: oorebeek@euronet.nl =83 where MUSIC is no harm can be =83
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