[pianotech] Pully keys

Ron Nossaman rnossaman at cox.net
Mon Apr 19 15:33:16 MDT 2010


John Delacour wrote:

> And what's wrong with animal glue for the bushings?  It worked perfectly 
> well for 150 years and it works well now.  I've rebushed a set of keys 
> today with it.  What are you going to do to stop me, and why?

No no no, not hide glue. He's talking about some weird 
thermoplastic junk that isn't water soluble, and is absolute 
misery to (try to) remove. It's a high speed, huge volume, low 
cost production thing. Hot hide is the right stuff.
Ron N


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