Strings and sealing wax, and other fancy stuph

[Scott Jackson]

Ron,
Thanks for that. We don't see Hallet Davis, but i have tuned "Story & Clark" and Niemeyer 5' grands from Dongbei. Now that i think about it, I did use Protek CLP on those agraffes too.

Scott Jackson
Mt Keira, Australia


----------------------------------------> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 20:04:54 -0500> To: pianotech at ptg.org> From: anrebe at sbcglobal.net> Subject: RE: Strings and sealing wax, and other fancy stuph>> Scott,> Hallet Davis is most definitely a Dongbei product. There is> excessive friction on the strings making them extremely difficult to> render. They do improve with repeated tunings, but I might add that> this was after I ProLubed the agraffes, capos and duplexes and then> Protek treated the firm felt that was swelling the strings up over a> hump on their way to the tuning pins.>> I've wondered if Dongbei is using the same poorly milled agraffes> that Pearl River inflicted on us. Had a dealer scramble looking for> someone willing to tune those pianos. They asked me and I said,> "Can't be worse then Dongbei, I tune by the hour." I got the job. :-)>> Andrew Anderson>>>> At 11:23 AM 9/15/2007, you wrote:>>>Ron,>>Does the "Imperial German Scale" imply that this is a Samick>>product? I see that the folks at pianoworld.com believe that it is a>>Dongbei product.>>>>Scott Jackson>>Mt Keira, Australia 
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