Steinway brass logo

[Greg Granoff RPT]

If the inlay is thin enough, and at least partially in a depression, one solution
would be to have several coats of clear built up over it, flat sanded, then rubbed
to proper luster (after it was glued down, of course.)  For the sake of
consistency, the last coast would have to extend all the way around the side of
the case.  Does S&S use clear coats, or do they rub out the black lacquer top coat
directly? Seems to me they have done both at one time or another. Anyone know?  It
would seem that a last clear topcoat would be appropriate considering how fast
brass oxidizes under the onslaught of all those student fingerprints without
protection of some kind.


Fred Sturm wrote:

> 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