String bearing point lubrication

[Geoff Sykes]

Then tweezers, or perhaps a locking hemostat, it shall be. 

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Mark Schecter
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 10:13 PM
To: Pianotech List
Subject: Re: String bearing point lubrication


Just hold the piece of felt in a pair of tweezers, and pour a few drops 
on from your oiler bottle - you control the amount. You could try 
putting the felt on a wire, but you'll probably have trouble getting it 
to stay on, with all the vibration and catching on strings, bridge pins, 
etc. Try it with tweezers.

-Mark

Geoff Sykes wrote:
> Now we just need a way to prevent the felt mute from saturating. I can 
> just see dipping the tip of the mute into the bottle and having the 
> entire contents sucked up. But the shape and the flexibility is 
> perfect. Perhaps just the point of a felt mute on the end of a wire?