[CAUT] Teflon and felt bushings

[Barbara Richmond]

I need a history lesson here.  Were all those Teflon pianos I faced at IWU 
heavy just because they were Teflon or poorly pinned Teflon or a geometry 
problem or something else?    So what was the touchweight like on those 
hybrids?

Barbara Richmond


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Conrad Hoffsommer" <hoffsoco@luther.edu>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Teflon and felt bushings


> At 09:23 AM 11/14/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>>I just inspected a 1981 B, and found that the hammer shank bushings are 
>>felt, but the wippen bushings are teflon. First of all, when did Steinway 
>>stop using the teflon bushings? And second, would Steinway have used 
>>teflon wippens and felt shank bushings?  According to the owner of the 
>>piano, the hammers have never been replaced.
>>
>>Wim
>
>
> I did the factory tech week in '82, and at that time they were 
> "transitioning" out of teflon.  They were using up the stocks of teflon 
> which they had left so that there were a number of hybrids during that 
> period.
>
>
>
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