felt knuckles????

[Delwin D Fandrich]

Patrick,

You indicate that these knuckles were/are a problem.  Would you please share
your experience with them?  Specifically what problems did you encounter?
How heavily used were the actions using them.

(Incidentally, when running a test of this sort, it is not all that unusual
to mix things up a bit. A bit unusual to send them out of the plant this
way, however.)

Thanks,

Del

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----- Original Message -----
From: "J Patrick Draine" <draine@mediaone.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: September 29, 2000 5:11 AM
Subject: Re: felt knuckles????


> >List:  I was servicing an older S&S "L" today and had to pull the action.
> >  About 1/2 of the shanks had knuckles that were felt ONLY - no buckskin.
> >Did Steinway ever use that style of knuckle??
>
> You win the prize! But only half of them? Somebody didn't have enough
> in stock to replace the whole set, I guess. I've only had a couple
> pianos with this problem -- does anybody out there know how long this
> was being done (sometime in the 50s &/or 60s, I thiink, but
> fortunately not very long).
>
> Patrick Draine