We just got a brand new Steinway D a couple weeks ago, and it has the now-standard logo and large "Steinway & Sons" in brass on the side toward the audience. The logo has started to curl away from the finish. Examining it, it appears to be brass foil with a gummy back, simply pressed onto the finished surface (in contrast to the letters, and the logo and letters on the fall, which seem to have had finish applied after they were placed, so that the finish more or less fills in around the edges, helping to hold them in place). First question: Am I right about what I am dealing with (ie, gummy-backed foil, applied to finished surface)? Second question: Is there any way such a logo is going to stay on more than a month or so in an active university environment? Is there something I can do to make it stick permanently? Or should I just tear the darned thing off, wool wax (or sand with 400/600 if need be) where it was and forget it? Fred Sturm University of New Mexico
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