Steinway bushings

[Avery Todd]

Hi Ed,

    Glad to read this. I've noticed when tuning our 2+ year old 'D' that some
of the hammers don't seem to bounce much on the return. So I guess I'm
looking at a repinning job in the near future. Right? :-) D!@@!!!!!!!!!!

Avery

At 08:26 AM 09/28/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Don writes:
> > A fellow colleague proteked the hammer and whippen flanges of a
> >new Steinway only to have them completely seize up resulting in the need
> >to  repin the whole darn works.  So.....is the bushing cloth used on these
> > instruments treated with Emeralon which reacts adversely to Protek?
>
>  Greetings,
>     I don't know what is in them, but siezed bushings is a recurrent problem
>in the new Steinways.  On factory recommendation,  I treated a set of 4 year
>old hammer bushings with straight alcohol,(methanol, from the pharmacy).  The
>next day, half of them were wobbly so I repinned the entire 88.
>    I now repin when there is a problem in the new bushings,  it is the ONLY
>way I have found to KNOW that the problem is corrected.
>Regards,
>Ed Foote  RPT