If the respondents would read closely, the original question never mentioned tuning pins, only replacing strings. The question is how to prevent moisture, salts and acids etc from the skin getting into contact with the metal wire causing pre-mature tarnishing. It is a good idea to wear thin leather gloves for this job. Failing that, Talc or talcum powder works too. I would not put sticky rosin all over my hands... :^) Jurgen Goering On Jan 9, 2009, at 9:07, pianotech-request at ptg.org wrote: > Matthew, > I would stay away from talc. I don’t do a lot of restringing anymore, > but many years ago I was advised to use powdered rosin . > > > > Subject: [pianotech] Handling wire w/ talcum powder > > I just heard from a local tech that he puts talcum powder on his > hands whenever he replaces strings on pianos. I believe I have heard > of this before, but was curious as to how common a practice it > is....... > > Matthew Todd, -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1788 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090109/ae1047a0/attachment-0001.bin>
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