Hi all, Last week, as I was working on a little Whitney Spinet (my, oh, my, how my life has changed) I read some notes the last piano technician had left in the piano (written on the keys--in fact, there were so many, he would've run out of room if he had serviced the piano a few more times--maybe they were notes for a novel, I don't know.). Anyway, he wrote that he had removed rust from the tuning pins. I didn't see any traces of rust on the pins or on the strings, so my thoughts were, "He really did a great job", or, "There wasn't much rust to begin with." In my previously ideal, over-protected, business life in Illinois, I rarely serviced a piano with a rust problem and when I did, the strings were a problem too and I would just lube the strings at the necessary pressure points, etc. So, finally, the question is, does one normally remove rust from tuning pins? Would it be more common in the case when there is no rust on the strings? If so, how is it best accomplished? Emery cloth, a wire brush? (I did, by the way, install a Dampp-Chaser & humidistat in this piano--for other symptoms, though.) I guess this is one of those things that I've missed somehow during the fifteen years I've been working on pianos or, perhaps I shouldn't believe everything I read inside a piano! Barbara Richmond, RPT Palestine, Texas PS Thanks to all of you who have inquired about my attending the convention. I won't be there and haven't written back because I haven't been feeling too great--but don't worry, it's for a good reason. If all goes well, a Richmond baby will arrive sometime around February 12!
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