End of the line

Jon Page jpage@capecod.net
Thu, 19 Nov 1998 07:19:28 -0500


At 06:45 AM 11/19/98 EST, you wrote:
>Greetings, 
>   I have been seeing so many uses for the CA glue I never would have thought
>of.   It must be rubbing off, because now I am starting to voice with it. 
>occured to me to go all the way, and I gave their crowns four drops each of
>Gold Bond CA, ( Frank Weston swears by this stuff, I am starting to agree). 
>    Wham, bam!  the next day the piano with the Golden crowns had two top
>notes that were as clear and defined as I have ever heard!! 
>I wouldn't go so far to put the CA glue on hammers farther down in the
>scale,(not at $332 a set, unbored!),  but for these two notes, it became
>obvious that nothing short of Hard would do.  
>Regards, 
>Ed Foote
>

Ed,
I had a similar problem with an old rebuilt Chickering. I could_not_get the
last
two notes to be "loud" enough for the customer. As a last resort I applied CA
to the strike point. They were bright. The customer loved it. Another case
closed.

Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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