'Matt Finish' on New York Steinway

[Jon Page]

Wet sanded with 400 wet-or-dry then rubbed with 4/0 steel wool.

I finer patina for a satin finish would be produced by useing a finer
grit sand paper and Scotch Brite.

I saw one recently, the surface looked like a phonograph record
with all the sanding lines in it. 

Oh well, 
Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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At 05:02 PM 12/9/98 +1000, you wrote:
>List,
>An easy question for you US folk.
>
>We don't get a lot of Steinways here in Australia but those that we do 
>are Hamburg.  Came across a supposed 10 year old New York B today 
>(looked at least 30 years old).  When I asked how the finish got 
>ruined (looked like somebody had taken a sheet of 80 grit sandpaper to 
>the whole piano), the owner told me that for 'environmental reasons' 
>this is how a matt finish is done on a New York piano.  It looked 
>terrible.
>
>Is this for real, or is somebody having this little Aussie on?
>
>Regards,
>John Woodrow
>Sydney Australia
>
>
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Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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