"Ticks" on a Harpsichord

Guy, Karen, and Tor Nichols nicho@lascruces.com
Thu, 10 Apr 1997 19:56:41 -0500


A
>Avery,
 Protek works well wherever steel or brass
>contacts felt but it doesn't
>seem to be appropriate for metal on wood.  Graphite should help but the
>string would
>have to be loosened to apply it.
>
>Albert Lord.

Albert,
	The product I use for wood/metal contact, if smell and cosmetics isn't a
problem, is molydenum disulfide...ite..whatever. Marketed under the name
"Dri-Slide", available from Schaff, etc. It's black, very black, and
stinks. Works like grass through a goose.
Guy
Guy Nichols, RPT
nicho@lascruces.com
	"Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he
sings."




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