Greetings,
<< We want a very firm, yet resilient
surface against the keypin, not a hard unforgiving one. We're going for
adhesion here, and not much "penetration" into the cloth is necessary. >>
I agree. And I wonder what is going on with the cloth, these days. I
rebushed 6 grands 18 months ago with the BU series of cloth from PianoTek. I took
care to use as little glue as possible, and all of them required just a
little easing when first installed, and I left the keys with as little free play as
possible. They were totally worn out, with keys hitting keys, within the
year! Front rails worse than balance.
I have never had wear that fast with the older, two color cloth that
Steinway used to sell. This new version seems softer and spongier, too. Half of
these pianos were lubed with Teflon powder, the other with McLube. The pins
were all polished, too. None of it made any difference, they are all totally
shot.
These pianos are in a very high use application, but I have been gettting
4 years out of keybushing with the Steinway and/or Fletcher-Newman "boxcloth"
supplies I used for many years. Anybody else have these problems? I didn't
iron the felt, but then again, I never have before, and the other cloth
certainly performed better.
Regards,
Ed Foote RPT
http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
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