Hey Kristinn. Not buckskin. Corfam. Manmade. Do a search on the archive and you will get about 10,000 hits. Many approaches to replacement. But all approaches are replacement. Call Baldwin and they will send you free glue and new buckskin. Haven't done it yet myself. Good luck. Terry Farrell Piano Tuning & Service Tampa, Florida mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kristinn Leifsson" <istuner@islandia.is> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 5:38 AM Subject: Baldwin buckskin > Hi people, > > I´ve been noticing that on a lot of Baldwins I´ve seen there is hard > buckskin, both on the hammer butt and on the back-catch. > What causes this? > These are pianos from around the 70's, I think. > > > Anything that I can do except replace them? > > Best regards, > > Kristinn > >
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