Green Stuff

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Thanks Marcel,

       I'll look for that source of powder in the future.  In this piano, 
however, both rails had felt. The powder was spread over the tops of the keys 
after the key button.  I found no powder in the action.  There was also the 
taste of copper from the airborne dust.   

       If I see this powder again and no foamed rails, I'll close up the 
piano.  
It is very fine, nasty powder and quite difficult to clean out without 
inhalation.

George Tyson, Associate 
Klamath Falls, Oregon

George,
 
I've seen some spinet which had some kind of foam instead of felt for the 
hammer spring rail and hammer rail in some cases. This foam was originally 
green but with time it just breaks up and could have created the condition 
you have seen. The foam become like dust only where the damper wire touch it 
and under the hammer shanks. Check it out again.
 
Marcel Carey, RPT
Sherbrooke, QC

  

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