Sorry Clyde, won't help. This era Steinway is suffering from terminal verdigris. New action is the only complete fix. A little Protek and a hair dryer with vigorous working of the parts after applying Protek may buy a little time whilst the consumer saves the sheckles necessary to repair the poor arthritic thing. Dale Fox On Fri, 26 May 2000 21:22:47 -0400 Clyde Hollinger <cedel@supernet.com> writes: > Friends, > > I need a little advice here. Today I saw a 1938 small Steinway > grand > (sorry, I don't know which model). The elderly owner said > sluggishness > occurs in the top octave when the humidity goes up and diminishes > when > the weather is dry. Indeed, it was sluggish today. Somehow she > wrangled me into doing a free evaluation, so I didn't want to pull > the > action out to see where the trouble really is. (Shame on me, I > know!) > And can she ever talk! (sigh) > > She wanted me to install just a heat rod under the keybed, which I > refused to do. I almost have her convinced to go at least with two > heat > bars -- one under the keybed and one under the soundboard -- and a > control unit. > > My question is this: Can I expect a heat bar under the keybed to > alleviate the tightness from humidity? Should it go inside the > action > cavity? Or is there no way to know until I know if the sluggishness > is > from key bushings or action centers? And what wattage should I use? > Or, do you think I should forget about humidity control and just get > in > there and fix the problem? > > Advice? I'm listening, watching, whatever. > > Regards, > Clyde > ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
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