Protek on Strings

[Ken Jankura]

At 05:06 PM 3/31/99 -0600, you wrote:
>> At my age, I don't get grin-faced over many
>>things. I was grinning last Thursday.
>
>>Jim Harvey, RPT
>
>
>I've done this on a half dozen pianos in the last couple of years (Protek,
>that is, I don't charge for grinning), as a last resort, when I had reached
>critical mass. Like Ed says (grain of salt on that "slosh" part <G>), it
>works very well where strings won't drag over that yard of cloth underneath
>too. I haven't detected a down side yet, but everyone knows pianos are
>immortal, so there's still plenty of time.
>
>Who was the brave soul who posted that he'd put Protek in a snappy pin
>block? Hey, you out there, is it still working?
>
> Ron 
>
I'm not the person who put it on a snappy pin (not quite that brave), but I
did write and say I tried it as an experiment in a piece of pinblock scrap
and got almost no difference in torque readings.