Importance of the staple: was hammer felt (Renner Blues)

[Farrell]

I removed the staples from a set of Abel lights several years ago. The piano is a lovely Baldwin R that resides in an UN-air-conditioned home in Florida. No problems. My info from several classes at conventions is that staples are only there because "the consumer expects them". Decades ago the staple may have offered insurance because the manufacturers did not have the quality glues available today. Just like the white middle layer of some bushing felt. Ages ago, the white layer was a product of the manufacturing process and indeed indicated high-quality felt. Today, this is not true, and you will see the white layer in some felt which is a combination product of a dying process and the company's marketing department. It is not indicative of any high-end manufacturing process.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Bondi" <tito@philbondi.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 7:24 AM
Subject: Re: Importance of the staple: was hammer felt (Renner Blues)


> David Love states:
> 
> >>If you mean that the staple is important in high humidity areas to ensure
> the hammer doesn't come apart, I'm not sure I agree.  My experience is that
> if the glue joint fails, no staple will hold it together. >>
> 
> I have to agree. I live in a high humidity area. Staples or no staples, if
> it's gonna fail, it's gonna fail.
> 
> -Phil Bondi (Fl.)
> tito@philbondi.com
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