lubricants

[Jon Page]

Silicone *creeps*

As far as applying Protek to bass strings to lube 'locking up',
don't try it.  I used a piece of steel wool to clean some bass strings,
after a while my fingers felt a little damp.  The pad had Protek on it.
Grabbed the wrong one.   Strings were duller sounding.  Fortunately
that piano was slated for restringing but could still be used for
the chorous rehersal in the mean time.
Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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>> Will Dri-Slide with molybedenum work like Protek?
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>The molybedenum lubricant I saw was black in color.  Might not look
>good on the  understring felts. However there is Slide-All Dry
>Lubricant with teflon.    The teflon and silicon lubricants are
>whitish, but dry nearly clear.  They seem though to be in spray cans,
>(execpt Protek) which is hard to direct.  Over spray can be lethal
>tuning pins and bass strings.
>You don't want to find out for sure.
>	Hmmm, on second thought perhaps the silicone lubes could be
>benifical to bass strings.  After all they say the tonal loss is
>caused by the string becomming stiff through the windings "locking
>up".  But heed your high school chemistry.  The action of liquids on
>two dissimilar metals causes electrolysis,  which has been known to
>ruin bass strings in a couple of days.  Wiping the strings with cloth
>treated with Endust might take a little longer.  A sneeze a little
>longer still, depending... but that is getting into another thread.
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>Richard Moody
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