Strings and sealing wax, and other fancy stuph

Scott Jackson scottwaynejackson at hotmail.com
Sat Sep 15 22:11:55 MDT 2007


Oops, sorry Andrew. I should have checked before making an ass out of me. I assumed that i was replying to Ron. Thanks again.

Scott Jackson


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
 
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