Sillicon, French pianos, WDA

[Oleg Isaac]

I send it again with modifications ...
Oleg Isaac wrote:
> 
> I've always hear the same ringing .
> Sillicon is forbidden near any surface wich may be re-varnished in the
> future. Special products are sillicon removers used for car painting, but it is impossible to throw off sillicon from wood

> Of course very dangerous for pins and bass strings. I've tryed a
> solution on (little) tight pins, it never worked fine. May be not the
> good mix... seems to produce noises.
> 
> The sillicon oil used (and purchased) by Yamaha, they use it on keyboard pins (with a rag)
> I suppose it goes a little in the wood of the key. May be it helps
> stabilizating the wood (stabilizationning, is it correct ?)
>  Any comment ?
> 
> Isaac
> 
> In France we have a lot of verticals, as you I suppose. But WE DONT have
> any spinets ( action under the keyboard) , the "little" pianos are 1.03 cm high with some exeption (old "Yatch" piano, a few Baldwin).

> I am not sure I want to talk of the pianos sold here as it could be
> interpreted as publicity for fabrik.
> 
> The only French fabrication we have is RAMEAU - made part in the south of France , part in some eastern country.
> 
> Since last Year , SHIMMEL (Germany) made PLEYEL, and they aught the
> rigts for Erard and may be Gaveau, as they buy the right to sign pianos
> with that name in 1966(?) , but since a few monthes , a PLEYEL and a
> Gaveau Fabrication is on the market.
> The source is the same as above, RAMEAU.
> Most of the time i see Young Chang pianos for verticals and little
> grands.
> A lot of Yamaha too - a lot of P.S.O from China - As we don't often rebuild pianos entirely like you do, many good old grands have been lost.
> Good repair is very expensive anyway (i.e. 10000$ for a complete rebuiding - with the original sounboard and no recap )
> But we have actually a lot of pianos ready for re-stringing. They often
> need bridge work, the sounboards are not always very healthy.
> Many time they will be rebuild incompletly (i-e only re-stringued)
> 
> Most of the time when I meet a re-stringued piano, the strings are not
> levelled, and the aliquot system, if any is not producing sound, so I
> may mark the angles, adjust the terminations, and so on.
> Old tuners often told us not to do nothing to strings. When I treat them
> with WD40 (thanks to Jim coleman), some tuners asked me what product I
> used because they found the piano is easy to tune afterthat.
> 
> I had put a little WD-40 (Water Displacement agent) on the felt near the
> tuning pins in case of rusty strings. It helped not to break strings,
> but this "pratique" (this way of working) does not please me too much.
> Is it hazardous ? WD40 says it is anti-static so i will not became dusty
> afterthat.
> 
> In a few I will wrote in English more than in French.
> 
> Musically your's
> 
> Isaac