WOW!! I saw GOLD PAINTED tuning pins!

[Farrell]

"Comments?"

Fagetaboutit! Yuck!

Terry Farrell
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: KeyKat88 at aol.com 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 3:19 AM
  Subject: WOW!! I saw GOLD PAINTED tuning pins!


  Greetings,

            I tuned a small grand piano (circa 1920) for a small chapel amd the tuning pins and the fore strings about 2" in, were painted gold!

            Now, I love to paint. Its a hobby, I mean, I have wooden wash props that I painted purple and aqua sides and I masked them with peg board to spray gold polka-dots. All this is to say that I am veerrrry critical of how good a paint job is .

          These tuning pins were wire brushed and the girt and grime was cleaned off, (the prep work was obviously well done) the piano was obviously masked to avoid over spray and then  painted gold with spray paint!   ....and IT LOOKED GOOD!  I tuned it, and the paint never got in my way, felt gummy or even chipped!!!  It was a well done job! 

         The History channel recently had a documentary on paint's use, function and it's history. It explained how a coat of paint will stop rust in it's tracks. I have a customer who just was given an old grand piano and the pin area is UGLY, I mean, I wire brushed it and vaccuumed and it still looks grubby. I'm ready to suggest a paint job to this customer, wire brush and masking tape/cardboard in hand!

        Gimme paint, dahmik! and I am dangerous!!! Seeing this opened up a new dimension'ne. Comments? 

  Julia Gottshall
  Reading, PA 
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