Garfield's

[Ron Lindquist]

At 11:39 AM 9/23/00 -0400, you wrote:
>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

What-----You been drinking it.???????
>