List, On 6/14 Avery wrote: >the local Kawai/Baldwin dealer wants to put his new Kawai EX & GS-100, >plus a new Baldwin out here with our new Steinway D(s) and maybe our >rebuilt American D and have a sort of "play-off". Inform us on the results. Sounds like fun to me. On 6/16 Rob wrote: >I did hear from Willis Snyder in a class back in Buffalo at a NYSCON >conference that he had found leather wore out just as quickly as felt in a >heavily used piano. The first I heard this. I will ask Willis for more detail. Ken claims that they are lasting longer at Cornell. >I use heated double sided brass cauls (learned from Paul Kupelian) with >hide glue applied directly to the felt in long strips and reheated by the >cauls when installed. I would be interested in knowing if anyone has done >this procedure with leather and had success. I use the brass cauls but still the old fashion way. Don McKechnie Ithaca College dmckech@ithaca.edu
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