Pulley Keys

[gordon stelter]

This sounds like a  neat idea, except that the glue
sizing would concern me here in the South, where I
imagine that high humoidity could cause stickiness
around the key hole.
     I would be interested in trying the steaming to
swell out the compressed wood, followed by a
controlled drying and then a soaking with lacquer or
something which would reconstitute the wood fibers and
add some density. 
     Super thin super glue ???
     Thump


    
--- Mark Dierauf <mark@nhpianos.com> wrote:
>  
> I had an old Fischer grand where the keys were so
> bad that the front
> line of the ivory overhangs looked ragged when
> viewed from above. There
> was substantial (1/32" or more) side to side play as
> well as the worst
> front to back play that I've ever experienced. The
> keys needed rebushing
> anyway, so I treated the balance holes to a liberal
> blast of steam from
> a tea kettle, say about 10-15 seconds each, followed
> by a generous
> slathering of thinned hide glue and to my amazement
> the problem
> disappeared completely and hasn't returned in the
> ten years since. The
> glue sizing mixture was actually nothing more than
> the water from the
> jacket around my glue pot, where I dip the brush
> between uses to keep it
> clean. It was basically just hot water with a very
> small amount of glue
> in it. Just enough glue so that it would produce a
> gel when cooled.
> 
> - Mark
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Love
> [mailto:davidlovepianos@earthlink.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 8:33 PM
> To: Pianotech
> Subject: Pulley Keys
> 
> Anybody want to share favorite methods for fixing
> pulley keys?  
> 
> 
> David Love
> davidlovepianos@earthlink.net
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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