[CAUT] center pinning changes

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Hi John,
No connection to my concoction> <G>
Joe Goss RPT
Mother Goose Tools
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Delacour" <JD at Pianomaker.co.uk>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] center pinning changes


> At 16:14 -0600 9/9/07, Joe And Penny Goss wrote:
> 
> ><G>
> >An hour after a bath there is enough lanolin behind the ear to use as a
> >lube.
> >This is what my flute players to use to lube their flute joints.
> 
> In the case of the old Rudall Carte wooden flutes, one of which I 
> have, was a little round cocus-wood box that my old tutor, who would 
> now be 130 years old!, said was supposed to contain goose grease to 
> lubricate the cork joints.  Any connexion with Goose Juice? :-)
> 
> A little more on the graphite question:
> 
> I noticed as I just as I was finishing re-centring the Kirkman a 
> small black circle at the birds-eye on one side of the butt.  It 
> occurred to me that perhaps they twirled a blacklead pencil in the 
> boring before pushing in the pin.  I have another set from a scrapped 
> Kirkman of about the same age and will have a look to see if it is 
> the same.  This is an idea that never occurred to me but which seems 
> a good one.  It would ease the pin through the wood without polluting 
> the bushing with blacklead as Renner's and Detoa's rotten method 
> does.  I find a 4B pencil the most useful for general blackleading 
> but for this purpose I might experiment with a 6B or even softer.
> 
> JD
> 
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