Verdigris

Keith McGavern kam544@ionet.net
Sat, 14 Feb 1998 04:57:43 -0600 (CST)


Part of Richard Moody's post:
>...But what I want to know how come it is always the hammer flanges in
>this "one" brand of piano?  Why not the whippen or jack flanges?
>Don't remember seeing it on the BL flanges either...

Verdigris does show up on the wippen and jack flanges on some Steinways and
in varying degrees of sluggishness.  On my experience with the older
Steinways I've serviced with verdigris, the hammer flanges seem to be the
area always affected, wippen flanges mostly, then  jack flanges sometimes.


Keith A. McGavern
kam544@ionet.net
Registered Piano Technician
Oklahoma Chapter 731
Piano Technicians Guild
USA




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