yamaha

[Avery Todd]

Les,

    I agree with Roger here although if it was hot hide glue, it would be 
so much
easier.
    I think I have an extra reamer if you want to borrow it. :-)

Avery

At 01:19 AM 8/7/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi Les,
>            Just pulling on the springs with a pair of needle nose pliers
>will uncoil the spring and pull most of the glue with it. The supply houses
>sell a reamer for cleaning out these grooves, simple to use, and the job
>will turn out perfect.
>Roger
>
>
>At 06:09 PM 06/08/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >Is Steve Pearson still with Yamaha?     I sent a message to him at
> >Yamaha.com, and it came back as undeliverable?
> >
> >So, I'll pose my question here.
> >
> >Yesterday, opening a 3-year old Yamaha P22, I discovered someone had
> >"spilled" something in the piano. Wound strings had large sections of
> >green on them, and regular strings, lots of rust.
> >
> >Strange thing is that several jack springs were broken, the broken ends
> >having turned black, I suppose, from corrosion.
> >
> >I suggested to the school district they might want to replace the whole
> >set of springs, since whatever it was had been spilled over the entire
> >set of strings, and I'd be concerned about other springs breaking.  This
> >poor thing will have to be restrung one of these days. Pretty sad.  I did
> >have the smarts to get the band director and show him what was going on.
> >
> >       The springs seem to be brass.  Replace them with Yamaha springs, I
> >suspect. But they're glued in, and I wonder how one gets the glue to
> >release the old ones.
> >
> >Any advice?
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >les bartlett
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>Roger Jolly
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