Steinway upright verdigris

[Avery]

Bob,

But at least Goose Juice comes from a piano tech 
who I'm sure has used it many, many times! :-)

Avery

At 12:23 PM 11/30/2006, you wrote:
>David Love writes:
>Sometimes spending the client’s money on the 
>second best, even temporary, solution is 
>necessary until such a time that the best solution can be considered.
>
>Sure, you're right. I didn't mean to sound as if 
>I refuse to treat tight centers. In fact, an 
>action is coming in to the shop in February for 
>new parts, the centers of which I juiced 
>(Protek) last year in order to buy some time for 
>the owner to save up. However, I think some of 
>us, in our [noble] desire to save the client 
>money, aren't clear enough that this is 
>temporary, and will be on top of the expense of 
>an unavoidable parts replacement, and fairly 
>soon at that. On a high-performance, 
>multi-tens-of-thousands piano, most owners 
>understand that anything less than the correct 
>repair will result in inferior performance, so 
>the sooner their hopes of a cheap solution are 
>made realistic, the better. Certainly I 
>commiserate with them, and if they need to 
>choose an interim solution, I'll do it cheerfully.
>
>I have been slow to try Goose Juice, because of 
>my past experience with products with 
>unpublished "miracle ingredients," which turned 
>out later to have surprising side effects. Think 
>of silicone-bearing polishes like Pledge, which 
>as a refinisher I've learned to hate as the new 
>finish fisheyes. Or Teflon. Or graphited 
>centers. At least with a known substance like 
>naphtha and mineral oil I might be able to 
>deduce, "hmmm, that's going to gum up when it 
>dries for a few years." Of course, if I know I'm 
>going to replace the parts, I don't suppose it 
>matters what I put on. I guess I'm being 
>unreasonable. Okay, okay, I guess I'll try it....
>
>Bob Davis
>
>
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