"Loss of Tone" Complaint

[jolly roger]

Hi Dan,
            I use the white Scotch brite for the easier jobs,  The Polito (
how ever you spell it?)  I use when I want to get aggessive.
Now when I get real mad on an old junker, out comes the 600 wet and dry. (
Used only dry of coarse)  We save that for the old beater trade ins.   Now
what do you want for $995 Cnd. It's stable at pitch, and regulated, plus
full money back on a decent piano later.
I agree the steel wool is messy, and it does not get the side and bottoms
of the strings.
Roger


At 07:01 AM 8/31/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Roger,
>
>    May I suggest using 3M's sandpaper replacment material? The oxblood
>colored variety is the one for this job. It would also allow better axcess
>to the underside of the wire if you were inclinded. It's fast...it's
>clean...there is no oil in it...(like steel wool)
>
>Dan
>
>
>on 8/31/01 5:02 AM, jolly roger at baldyam@sk.sympatico.ca wrote:
>
>> Take a string eraser and sharpen one end to a chisle shape,  use at an
>> angle and you can slip between the strings and clean the sides and most of
>> the underside.  The blunt end is used to clean the top sides of the
strings.
>> 
>> I think some of the down ward pressure also helps seat the string.  Close
>> attention to all the bearing points,  string cleanliness, and hammer
>> mating, often saves you from having to do any thing further to the hammers.
>> 
>> Regards Roger 
>> 
> 
>