[pianotech] Jack wink /thanks/ and blostering knuckles

John Formsma formsma at gmail.com
Fri Feb 13 20:45:49 PST 2009


On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:35 AM, <KeyKat88 at aol.com> wrote:

>  Greetings,
>
>           I read in Danny Boone's *Regulating Grand Piano Touch and Tone*
> book, that flattened knuckles can be "bolstered"
>
>           I read that this is done by threading a needle with 100% wool
> yarn and taking the needle in one side of the knuckle and out the other and
> clipping off the ends.
>


I do it with a small strip of bushing cloth.  Hardened on the "starting" end
with CA glue & accelerator, and formed into a point.  The width is varied
according to how much bolstering it needs.

-- 
JF
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