This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/related attachment ------=_NextPart_001_000F_01C2A752.71173B60 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Susan Kline=20 To: College and University Technicians=20 Sent: December 18, 2002 11:49 AM Subject: Re: key bushings At 11:03 AM 12/18/2002 -0800, you wrote: The material didn't stand up well under long-term use. There was no = way to fit them to various size pins and pins do vary in width. There = was no way to adjust them to take up wear and they did wear. There was = no way to hold them in the key mortise -- the ribbed ends just didn't = make it. At the time there was no adhesive that would bond to the stuff = to hold them in the mortise. They varied in size overly much. The = manufacturer apparently used a multi-cavity mold and the cavities seemed = to vary some.=20 =20 I think that about covers it.... But aside from THAT, they were just fine! <grin>=20 Susan=20 -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----- I find it some frustrating that in this so-called modern age with our = sophisticated design techniques, our computers, our automated tooling = and machinery that shameful excuse for a keybushing is the best we can = do. Somebody actually spent time and money on this ridiculous thing. = Somebody should have been ashamed of themselves but probably didn't know = enough about the real piano world to be so. The traditional key bushing certainly needs improving, but that atrocity = was, and is, an affront to our industry and to the buying public.=20 Then consider, in the mid- to late-1880s a small piano maker in St = Petersburg, Russia came up with this: Beautifully made. Precisely detailed. Leather bushed. Fully adjustable = -- those are two nicely and finely threaded screws going in from the = side and those are two pins going down from the top neatly fitting in = machined grooves in those screws. And, yes, they are still fully = functional after some 125 or so years. Ain't progress grand.... Del =20 ------=_NextPart_001_000F_01C2A752.71173B60 An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/8a/7d/0b/5b/attachment.htm ------=_NextPart_001_000F_01C2A752.71173B60-- ---------------------- multipart/related attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 40413 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/77/f2/de/83/attachment.jpe ---------------------- multipart/related attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 31992 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/f0/7b/23/bf/attachment.jpe ---------------------- multipart/related attachment--
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