Key bushing question

[David Ilvedson]

Usually this is a problem with the spoons angled into the pads, too much glue when installed...soaking through, spoons with burrs...

David I.



----- Original message ---------------------------------------->
From: Michelle L Stranges <stranges@Oswego.EDU>
To: <caut@ptg.org>
Received: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 15:55:59 -0500
Subject: Re: Key bushing question

>It's Michelle here... as I posted before... anyone see this on upright
>spoons??  I don't know of many who replace damper spoon pads that much....
>I saw the same thing on a Baldwin Hamilton and just recently, a Steinway
>upright..


>( Please keep the previously mentioned upright jokes to a minimum.)

>:) michelle --On Wed, Jul 3, 2002 2:45 PM -0500 "Thomas D. Seay, III"
><t.seay@mail.utexas.edu> wrote:

>> Hi Susan,
>>
>> Actually, the problem existed before I started trying the different
>> lubes. Using them has slightly improved the situation, but it still
>> exists.
>>
>>>Maybe the Prolube is mixing it up with the McLube and/or the bushing
>cloth?
>>>
>>>Have you tried rebushing without the lubes, and seen what happened then?
>>>
>>>Good luck
>>>
>>>Susan
>>>
>>
>> -----------------------
>> Tom Seay
>> Piano Tech Office
>> School of Music
>> The University of Texas at Austin
>> (512) 232-2072
>> mailto:t.seay@mail.utexas.edu
>>