Garfield's

[JStan40@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 09/23/2000 7:17:29 AM Central Daylight Time, Ric Moody 
writes:

<< That's it in a nut shell.   Someone who didn't know what they were doing
 slopped in some "quick goo".    But had they used GARFIELDS they wouldn't
 have had the black tarry looking goop even if they slopped on GARFIELDS.
 Because GARFIELDS is a clear(ish) liquid and certainly doesn't stain or mar
 the pin, bushing or plate.  And GARFIELDS is long lasting because it is
 designed to draw moisture from the air back into the pin block, in other
 words GARFIELDS works over the years to keep moisture in the block.  I tuned
 a piano last month I had put GARFIELDS on   SIX YEARS ago and they are
 tighter now than then.
     GARFIELDS takes about 10 minutes to apply.  The piano should be tilted
 or laid on its back.  This is an inconveince some say but we are paid
 professionals and this must be done for GARFIELDS to work best, and
 GARFIELDS is the best working tuning pin tightener PERIOD.   Some say
 LUNDSFORDS but it is twice as expensive and can leave dark stains if used by
 a slop artist.  Some say Crazy Glue (CA) but that gets expensive, and its
 long term effects have not been determined, and may be detrimental if the
 strings have to be let down as in bridge repairs.  Some say thin Epoxy or
 heated Epoxy, but in my opinion if Garfields doesn't work CA or Epoxy are at
 best a patch job only reasonable to save the clunker from the dump.  Ask
 yourself this question, if GARFIELDS will work, why am I using something
 else??
     One final note, if you are using a tuning pin tightener other than
 GARFIELDS you are not using GARFIELDS, and no respectible technician should
 stake his reputation on anything else but GARFIELDS.  Of course there may be
 a piano that won't respond after the second  treatment 10 days later.  But
 it hasn't happened yet, at least in 25 years.   Well one time Lundsfords did
 stop a pin in a bar piano that I had put GARFIELDS on a week earlier, but
 that piano had more drinks spilled in it than it was worth, every year.
     So if you haven't tried GARFIELDS you don't know what tuning pin
 tightener is about.   You will be pleasantly surprised.  Oh and if you are
 surprised that the price of GARFIELDS went up one dollar, that is because as
 of this posting I now get $1 for every bottle sold from all 3 supply houses.
 ; )   ---ric
  >>

Hey, Ric!

What's the name of that stuff again?  You know, the clear stuff that tightens 
pins?

Stan Ryberg
Barrington IL