touching the strings and other damage

[antares]

No talc please.
Either a completely dry hand but better still, a very thin glove.
In the Yamaha factory the stringing technicians wear cotton gloves to a.
protect the strings and b. to protect their hands.
Touching strings with wet hands (and all hands usually have some moist on
them) causes corrosion stains.

André Oorebeek




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> From: LHudicek@AOL.COM
> Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 11:53:24 EST
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: touching the strings and other damage
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I appreciate all of the responses I've received on this subject so far.  I
> would like to know your opinion on touching the strings.  I know that most of
> you are against it because of the oils on the hands. However, what if the
> performer/musician/artist (yes, we do like to call ourselves this rather than
> moronic vehicles of destruction! :)! )
> puts talc on their hands to prevent sweating or the oils from getting on the
> strings?  Does this help?  Can it hurt the strings or any other mechanism?
> 
> Also, can you share in detail any of the damage you've seen from these
> techniques?  How much time and $$ was the result?  Please feel free to
> contact me off the list.
> 
> Thanks,
> Laurie Hudicek, pianist
>