Terry - I would tend to agree about leaving slight color variations in ebony, feeling as you do that it adds character and looks more 'natural' (NPI). However, this particular set had one sharp near the center of the keyboard that had a noticeable brown spot (as opposed to a streak) about the size of the end of your pinky, and it really stood out from the rest of the set which are generally quite black. - Mark -----Original Message----- From: Farrell [mailto:mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com] Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 10:53 PM To: Pianotech List Subject: Re: Pianotek's ebony sharp stain I've used the Transtint dyes and have found them to be a very good product. But as far as brown streaks in the ebony is concerned, I would question where the problem is - with the ebony sharps or elsewhere. Why disguise that beautiful spark of natural beauty with dye? We're talking character here.... Why the heck would a piano manufacturer use an exotic wood like ebony if only to stain it black? They could just make the sharps out of any durable wood - like maple, etc. Natural ebony with it's wild brown shades and off-white keys, especially on an old piano, IMHO, are the cat's tushy. Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- I've got a set of nice ebony on an '06 S&S B (just turned 100 on Friday!) but there are a couple with brown spots or streaks where the wood was not completely black under whatever Steinway used back then to finish their sharps. I got a bottle of Transtint black stain from Pianotek to take care of this problem but I thought I'd check with the list to see if anybody had had any direct experience using this product and can offer any advice. TIA, Mark Dierauf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20060731/d5a8c183/attachment.html
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