[pianotech] talcum

[PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com]

It's a wedge issue.
 
Paul
 
 
In a message dated 1/9/2009 7:03:25 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
davidlovepianos at comcast.net writes:

That  would be my pitching.

David  Love
www.davidlovepianos.com


-----Original Message-----
From:  pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of  David Ilvedson
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 4:49 PM
To:  pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] talcum

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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