[CAUT] Protek against string falseness

[Poppy Miles]

About that experiment...I think the gentleman that you talked to may not have participated in it himself (as he was in a different year of the program). He might have exaggerated the effect that Protek had on the instrument. The first torque readings were around 48 the readings after it around 53. My conclusion was that we wasted a some very expensive lubricant. I haven't seen any improvement to false bass strings as a result of Protek either.
 
Poppy Miles, rpt
       

--- On Thu, 9/11/08, Andrew Anderson <andrew at andersonmusic.com> wrote:

From: Andrew Anderson <andrew at andersonmusic.com>
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Protek against string falseness
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 5:27 PM

A gentleman who attended NBSS told me about dousing a pinblock in  
Protek as an experiment on a piano they were tearing down.  Apparently  
it tightened up and became tune-able again.  I understand that it is  
water-based, which might have longer term issues for bass strings.

Andrew  Anderson

On Sep 11, 2008, at 6:03 PM, Richard Brekne wrote:

> Hi Ted
>
> Yes.  After so many years in the biz one gets to know a wild bass  
> string that isnt going to respond to removal, twisting, cleaning  
> what not with reasonable assuredness. Tho that said... I had done a  
> bit of that on some of the strings I've applied Protek on without  
> that having any real affect.
>
> Sometimes you can add a twist and it might help a bit... true  
> enough. But this seems to directly affect the para inharmonicity of  
> a bass string.
> What else it does is what I am looking for input on.  As well as  
> what effect protek has on bridge wood at the bridge pin.
>
> Cheers
> RicB
>
>   Hi Ric,
>
>   I sounds like you are not livening the bass strings first, is that
>   right? You are not removing an end and running a loose granny knot
>   back and forth to clean and "liven" the string? You are just
adding
>   the Protek to the string in its existing condition?
>
>   Thanks.
>
>   Ted
>
>   Ted Kidwell, RPT
>
>




      
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