Edward Meijer wrote: > Hi Richard, > > I have learnd that white glue and metal contact will harm the metal. It wil > rust and gives brown nasty spots on wood. Hmm of course, when you first mention it.. the obvious. Water, metal, rust.. Tho I am not sure what he let the stuff pretty much dry before reinsertion of the pins.. I will ask him about it, and ask him why they did this for front rail pins and balance rail pins at the factory. > > > We tryed the old warm glue on the bridgepins of a restrung (or is it > restringed) Bechstein (1920) grand for about 10 years ago. > The glue gets real hard and it wil give no stains. > > That instrument had on the treble side a lot of strings that has been > giving troubles with tuning. > Famous self vibrating strings? That sounds kind of funny in English... we simply say false.. does any body say self-beating ? > In The Netherlands we say "zelf zwevende snaren" "Selvsvingende strenger" in Norwegian. > Well what happend. > After all these years this instrument has a very nice clear treble side. > It has no self vibrating strings anymore. > Just what jou say: > The falsness dissapeared completely.. > this thing sounds now clean as a > whistle. > And that after 10 years. > > Greatings from: > > Edward Meijer > The Netherlands Thanks for the info.. Thats the first time I have heard of hot glue being used for this job as well. Hils! -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
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