Richard, Yes, you are right. The metal in the tines crystallize right before they break from metal fatigue. This makes the tines go sharp - radically and quickly, with each hammer blow. If you find one of these, the only thing you can do is replace the tine - or maybe you can retemper the tine with a mapp gas or better torch. I hadn't thought of the latter. It may come to that if the last remaining sources dry up. We used to have one of these around here - an interesting one in a furniture cabinet. I hadn't seen another one of these. Que chulo! Mark Story, RPT Eastern Washington University Cheney, Washington ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Moody" <remoody@midstatesd.net> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 9:32 PM Subject: Re: Wurlitzer > > have. If it takes more than that, watch out, the tine might be ready to > break. After all if it didn't loose any solder, how the heck did it go out > sharp??They are the most stable I have seen other than reed organs. The
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