Hi Ken, I hope I'm way off base, for the sake of the sanity of those involved, but does this piano have a vertigree(sp?) problem? Some of those Steinways could become quite miserable with that stuff. I wouldn't wish it on my competition! ;-) Brian Trout Quarryville, Pa. -----Original Message----- From: Ken Jankura <kenrpt@mail.cvn.net> To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org> Date: Thursday, June 17, 1999 11:41 PM Subject: S&S green goop >List, >Have any of you noticed the correlation between difficulty of rep spring >regulation and amount of green goop in the rep spring lever slot on >Steinway actions? I've been regulating an L, using a technique taught by >the great John Hartman, whereby you use a small 1 gram (or so) weight which >you clip to the strike point of the hammer. When you set each hammer to >'just barely rise' from check, you get consistent spring tension, and a >very even 'speed of rise' difference from bass to treble. It has worked >well for me the few other times I have tried it, but on this one, despite >my best efforts, they end up working a little inconsistently. Is it the >green goop? This piano seems to have quite a bit of it. I know that it is a >special secret formula mixture of moose earwax and equatorial pond algae >designed especially to aid in repetition, but I was also wondering whether >anyone makes it a routine part of regulation to clean this out, and replace >it with graphite, Protek MPL, VJ lube, Chapstick, etc. I know it would only >help to replace it, but exactly how does one do this quickly and >efficiently? It's not in this piano's budget to disassemble to clean, or is >there an easier way? > >Ken Jankura >Newburg,PA > > >
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