John, I don't know about 'safe' at the moment. As of last Thursday, I began exploring 'effective'. I finally tired of finding the 'sweet spot' on an Aeolian Knabe grand. The combination of excessive side bearing, mushy tuning pin feedback, and high counter-bearing area with felt landings was causing me to spend as much time on the last 1-1/2 octaves as on the rest of the piano. You know the type -- turn the pin 1/8 of a rotation before anything changes, regardless of direction. Last Thursday, my internal fuse blew, and I reached for the Protek and applied a few drops to only the felted area between tuning pins and counter-bearing bar. At my age, I don't get grin-faced over many things. I was grinning last Thursday. The difference in tuning response was instant and gratifying. Although other areas could benefit...(?), I stopped after doing only the highest treble section. When I see the results of this over time, I may do more of this piano, and/or loosen my restraints regarding other pianos -- especially those that exhibit these characteristics. On a related note, it was the lack of tuning stability that caused this client to switch tuners originally. Their words, "The tuning seemed just fine until someone began to actually play the piano". My tunings were always stable on this piano, but the penalty in time and frustration in making it so was beginning to get to me. Something had to change... and did. JMO. At 08:51 AM 3/31/99 -0500, John wrote: >(I digress once again, please excuse me): How effective/safe is ProTek on the >bearing points? How 'bout the coil? How 'bout the underfelt? I've been tempted >many times, but just haven't yet made the leap. > >John Piesik, RPT >Oceanside, CA Jim Harvey, RPT Greenwood, SC harvey@greenwood.net ________________________ -- someone who's been in the field too long.
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