[pianotech] talcum

[David Ilvedson]

And you can practice your chipping when you have the piano strung...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "David Love" <davidlovepianos at comcast.net>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Received: 1/9/2009 4:45:00 PM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] talcum


>I use a leather golf glove on my left hand which is the only hand that
>touches the wire--my right hand handles only tools.  The golf glove (you can
>buy cheap ones in bulk) protects the wire from the oils in your hands
>without having to dip them in talc.  It also protects the thumb from wear
>and tear when winding the wire onto the tuning pins.  During breaks I can
>practice my chipping.  

>David Love
>www.davidlovepianos.com


>-----Original Message-----
>From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
>Of A440A at aol.com
>Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 10:29 AM
>To: pianotech at ptg.org
>Subject: Re: [pianotech] talcum

>Hmm,  
><< Talcum, Talc, French Chalk are all Magnesuim Silicate.

>Chalk is a type of limestone, a form of calcium carbonate.

>Blackboard chalk, confusingly, tends to be made from calcium sulfate. >>

>I have used talc for years.  This is USP Talc, from Mallinckrodt chemical 
>company.  I got a pound from the druggist in 1976 and have almost used it up
>in a 
>career of stringing.  It was taught that way at North Bennett, to use 
>unscented talcum powder to avoid the perfume oils.  I thought that was
>stretching it, 
>but I have never had a jumpy pin or tuning difficulty with the many blocks I

>tune where I used this to string with.   It keeps the hands from staining
>the 
>wire.  
>Regards,  
> 
>Ed Foote RPT 
>http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
>www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
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